Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Problems installing 18.10
As an experiment booted from the DVD, same problem - blank screen instead of a login screen. 18.04, no problem (using that to type this message, same hardware). The R430 is not listed in Xorg.0.log but 18.04 runs it without problems. Have a more modern card on order, will try that. Mike Squires On 10/31/18 1:02 PM, Mike Squires wrote: I tried to upgrade by copying all my personal files offline, as well as the important changes in /etc (mainly fstab for mounting my FreeBSD NFS server directories). The upgrade failed. The installation was made by replacing 18.04 completely, and seemed to succeed, but after rebooting both screens were blank (have two HP 2511x flat panels, one connected via DVI and the other via VGA from outputs on my old AMD/ATI Radeon 800XL All-in-Wonder (R430 chipset). I've seen this before when the system fails to correctly identify the monitors (worked fine during installation, these have warning screens that appear if the values used by the video card are out of range) or when for some reason the video card is incorrectly identified or just not supported. Hardware is a Supermicro X7DAE (no SCSI) with currently 4GB RAM, 2 quad core Xeon 5300 CPUs, boot disk is a RAID1 array using two 2TB Seagate Constellation drives on a LSI 9750 (4 channel) and a 3ware 9550SX PCI-X card used previously but not with any drives installed at this point. There is an M-Audio sound card installed but I've not loaded the drivers for it, yet. I had to blow away the previous logs by reinstalling 18.04, which is working as usual. Nothing remarkable in ".xsession-errors" or Xorg.0.log. I'm going to replace the old Radeon card with something newer, and try again. I have a fondness for the fonts as they appear with a Radeon card. I'll be modifying the system so I can boot off a removable drive, so some debugging is certainly possible. (I'm retired, first UN*X system was a Radio Shack 16 ca 1985; have run FreeBSD since the 386BSD days. In past years I've done UN*X mostly as a hobby while working as a MS Windows Server system admin; retired in 2014. Running Ubuntu Studio on my main desktop (this one) and on an HP Envy 17T laptop and Dell 6230 laptop. Only apps that I use that require Windows at this point are Sibelius and Quicken; will try to migrate them to a MS Windows 7 VM soon. Back end at the house consists of a 1U FreeBSD firewall, 4U FreeBSD quad Opteron NFS/Samba server, 4U FreeBSD quad dual core Opteron backup server, 2U FreeBSD music backup server and tape controller (amanda), and an HP 24 slot tape library. These are all old and will be retired Real Soon Now. I got my most recent job when the employers realized my home system had a more sophisticated backup design than theirs, and they served thousands.) Thank you. Mike Squires -- Michael L. Squires, Ph.D., M.P.A. 546 North Park Ridge Road Bloomington, IN 47408 Home phone: 812-333-6564 Cell phone: 812-369-5232 www.siralan.org or www.smithgreensound.com UN*X at home since 1985 -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
[ubuntu-studio-devel] Problems installing 18.10
I tried to upgrade by copying all my personal files offline, as well as the important changes in /etc (mainly fstab for mounting my FreeBSD NFS server directories). The upgrade failed. The installation was made by replacing 18.04 completely, and seemed to succeed, but after rebooting both screens were blank (have two HP 2511x flat panels, one connected via DVI and the other via VGA from outputs on my old AMD/ATI Radeon 800XL All-in-Wonder (R430 chipset). I've seen this before when the system fails to correctly identify the monitors (worked fine during installation, these have warning screens that appear if the values used by the video card are out of range) or when for some reason the video card is incorrectly identified or just not supported. Hardware is a Supermicro X7DAE (no SCSI) with currently 4GB RAM, 2 quad core Xeon 5300 CPUs, boot disk is a RAID1 array using two 2TB Seagate Constellation drives on a LSI 9750 (4 channel) and a 3ware 9550SX PCI-X card used previously but not with any drives installed at this point. There is an M-Audio sound card installed but I've not loaded the drivers for it, yet. I had to blow away the previous logs by reinstalling 18.04, which is working as usual. Nothing remarkable in ".xsession-errors" or Xorg.0.log. I'm going to replace the old Radeon card with something newer, and try again. I have a fondness for the fonts as they appear with a Radeon card. I'll be modifying the system so I can boot off a removable drive, so some debugging is certainly possible. (I'm retired, first UN*X system was a Radio Shack 16 ca 1985; have run FreeBSD since the 386BSD days. In past years I've done UN*X mostly as a hobby while working as a MS Windows Server system admin; retired in 2014. Running Ubuntu Studio on my main desktop (this one) and on an HP Envy 17T laptop and Dell 6230 laptop. Only apps that I use that require Windows at this point are Sibelius and Quicken; will try to migrate them to a MS Windows 7 VM soon. Back end at the house consists of a 1U FreeBSD firewall, 4U FreeBSD quad Opteron NFS/Samba server, 4U FreeBSD quad dual core Opteron backup server, 2U FreeBSD music backup server and tape controller (amanda), and an HP 24 slot tape library. These are all old and will be retired Real Soon Now. I got my most recent job when the employers realized my home system had a more sophisticated backup design than theirs, and they served thousands.) Thank you. Mike Squires -- Michael L. Squires, Ph.D., M.P.A. 546 North Park Ridge Road Bloomington, IN 47408 Home phone: 812-333-6564 Cell phone: 812-369-5232 www.siralan.org or www.smithgreensound.com UN*X at home since 1985 [0.00] Linux version 4.15.0-20-lowlatency (buildd@lgw01-amd64-039) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)) #21-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 24 07:52:58 UTC 2018 (Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-lowlatency 4.15.17) [0.00] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-20-lowlatency root=UUID=4139f7a2-8544-4fbe-9fbb-ffdd6cdce63b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1 [0.00] KERNEL supported cpus: [0.00] Intel GenuineIntel [0.00] AMD AuthenticAMD [0.00] Centaur CentaurHauls [0.00] x86/fpu: x87 FPU will use FXSAVE [0.00] e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x-0x0009d3ff] usable [0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0009d400-0x0009] reserved [0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000e4000-0x000f] reserved [0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0010-0xbff5] usable [0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0xbff6-0xbff68fff] ACPI data [0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0xbff69000-0xbff7] ACPI NVS [0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0xbff8-0xbfff] reserved [0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0xe000-0xefff] reserved [0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0xfec0-0xfec0] reserved [0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0xfee0-0xfee00fff] reserved [0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0xff00-0x] reserved [0.00] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0001-0x00013fff] usable [0.00] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active [0.00] random: fast init done [0.00] SMBIOS 2.4 present. [0.00] DMI: Supermicro X7DA8/X7DA8, BIOS 6.00 12/03/2007 [0.00] e820: update [mem 0x-0x0fff] usable ==> reserved [0.00] e820: remove [mem 0x000a-0x000f] usable [0.00] e820: last_pfn = 0x14 max_arch_pfn = 0x4 [0.00] MTRR default type: uncachable [0.00] MTRR fixed ranges enabled: [0.00] 0-9 write-back [0.00] A-B uncachable [0.00] C-C write-protect [0.00] D-E3FFF uncachable [0.00] E4000-F write-protect [0.00] MTRR variable ranges enabled: [
