X-Windows issues with RHEL4 on rx2600

[Kent C. Brodie]

Good day, all....

We have several rx2600's. Most of them are running RHEL AS 3 with absolutely no issues, X-display (console with HP tft flat panel) works just fine.

I spent a good amount of time last night installing RHEL AS 4 - and while I was able to get the OS installed OK (via SERIAL PORT), I am unable to get it to properly display anything on the console screen.

It appears to me that this is an issue with the xorg X-windows environment, specially the settings in the generated /etc/xorg.conf file.

I tried a bunch of different settings and changes in that file- and was able to get a variety of results (some color, one time actually got the cursor), but not a single combination I have tried seems to work.

This is frustrating, since RHEL 3 AS had absolutely no issues detecting and setting up the X parameters correctly.

Yes, I tried copying the contents of the XF86 config from one of the RHEL3 servers and editing the xorg.conf file on the new box with same- no dice.

Any suggestions? Note, I am NOT having problems with the EFI and the console device settings-- it *is* attempting to sent output to the screen- it's just not configured properly with the magic incantation of device/screen/monitor settings in xorg.conf.

Help?

[Ivan Ferreira]

Try with the following command:

system-config-display --reconfig --set-driver=vesa

[Kent C. Brodie]

Um..... nope. Console display is dark/black.

I am this --> <--- close to wiping this out and going back to RHEL3.

Any other ideas?

[Kent C. Brodie]

Go figure.

"system-config-display" run by itself finally displayed something, but I have no idea why. I had tried that before a few dozen times. Perhaps it has to do with the VESA setup I had before (which did not work), and it complained that it couldn't handle the X-Server, and started a new one.

It *appears* to be working now, but I fear I could not reproduce the steps on another server if I tried.

Regardless, the new xorg stuff incorporated into RHEL4 on these servers (2600's) is problematic, to say the least.......

[Kent C. Brodie]

I think I figured it out.

The core of the problem is an assumption built into xorg, not previously assumed in XF86.

Specifically, if you edit out the
" Load "dri" "
line that's in xorg.conf, it seems OK.

This has more to do with the stupid rack-mounted HP TFT LCD display than the rx2600........