[SOLVED] xserver not starting

[pidiclovek]

Hi there,

I am installing RHEL 5 on a few workstations ( Dell Precision T5500 ) and xserver is unable to load. That is happening even if the computer is absolutely clean, with no installations, when the Anaconda instalator offers me graphical mode. So i have installed it in text mode, no problem, but xserver is unable to start even after the installation itself, so all I have is command line.

The T5500 are certified by Red Hat, there is nvidia Quadro fx 3800 used. Any suggestions please? I am totally stuck here, on other machines it's just fine but there.

Thanks in advance,
Thomas

[Rubberman]

What is the video hardware on these systems? Are they using built-in video hardware, or a separate video card? If they have both, have you tried disabling the on-board video in the BIOS?

[devils casper]

Its a Graphics Card problem only. Post the output of this

lspci | grep -i vga

Edit existing or create new xorg.conf file and set "vesa" driver in Video Card section or pass xserver="vesa" option to kernel. vesa is a generic driver and works fine with most of Graphics Cards. You can configure correct driver for your Graphics Card later on.

[pidiclovek]

Thanks for replies, I'll try that. To a first question - there is no built-in video hardware, just two Nvidia Quadro fx 3800 on motherboard ( I tried it with only one plugged in but that did not solve the problem. ) So I'll just log in and post the log

[pidiclovek]

So there is a log, two lines there, one for each quadro...

03:00.0 VGA Compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200GL [NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800] (rev a1)
04:00.0 VGA Compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200GL [NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800] (rev a1)

I am going to try change the xorg.conf file now.

[pidiclovek]

Thanks you a lot guys!!! changing the driver to "vesa" indeed worked! So this case is solved, thanks again

[devils casper]

Glad to help you !
Do start a new thread if you have any other question.