On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:30:06 -0600, Thomas Johnson <tommyj27 at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:20:51 -0600, John T. Hoffoss > <john.t.hoffoss at gmail.com> wrote: > > I had a system with a knoppix derivative installed to the hard drive. > > Worked great, upgraded it, etc. so, pretty much, straight-up > > debian[-testing?] at this point. > > > > Went and got an MSI 915G mobo, PIV 3GHz, bla bla. Moved the disk, and > > now I can't get video, and when I try to boot 2.6, it just locks. > > > > I was running 2.6.7-custom, so installed 2.6.8-686-smp, only to get > > the same thing. With 2.4, I get to a command line but am still not > > getting any video. > > > > lspci: > > 000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82915G Express > > Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04) > > > > In addition, the on-board IDE/RAID controller (which I want for normal > > IDE only) doesn't seem to be supported. Which means I can't boot to a > > KNOPPIX CD to check out what it's doing in X, since it can't find the > > CD. > > > > I can rip this apart and move the CD to IDE0:1, but this issue will > > still persist either way, and I'll need support for more than two > > drives. (This board only has one ATA100 IDE controller. The other two > > are the VIA ATA133 slots.) > > > > lspci: > > 000:02:04.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Tech. VT6410 ATA133 RAID > > Controller (rev 06) > > > > Silly me for assuming this would just work... > > hey john, > > have you checked to see if there are any funky video settings in your > bootloader config. Sounds suspiciously like a problem i had when i > moved some machines to 2.6. The video boot string changed between 2.4 > and 2.6. > > tom Yeah, I checked. Nothing but "vga=791", same as the 2.6.7 kernel. Also tried nofb, to no avail. I wasn't clear on it before, either, but the knoppix-customized 2.6.7 kernel boots with vesafb, just no CD/IDE-RAID (Picks up the SATA stuff too.) or X. (X just errors out saying no devices detected, so perhaps a missing kernel module, but I don't know which one.)