Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:20:42 -0400, Joey wrote in message : > None of these revealed anything of use to me. > Have you or anyone else used debian on the IBM x3650 ? ..me, no. Are you saying booting with "verbose" instead of "quiet" doesn't give you any more output in dmesg or in the logs??? >

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-13 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/04/12 00:20, Joey L wrote: > None of these revealed anything of use to me. > Have you or anyone else used debian on the IBM x3650 ? > With the RSA board ?? I really feel that the console is being sent to > that board and not to the regular vga port. > Just have no way of confirming this. Can

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-13 Thread Joey L
None of these revealed anything of use to me. Have you or anyone else used debian on the IBM x3650 ? With the RSA board ?? I really feel that the console is being sent to that board and not to the regular vga port. Just have no way of confirming this. Can anyone else offer some advice ? thanks mjh

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:04:31 -0400, Joey wrote in message : > > Looking at the messages above, you have an ATI Radeon-based video > > card. 'lspci' should confirm that. > > > > Thanks for your quick response ...i got the following back - > > 01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies In

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-09 Thread Joey L
You are right about the RSA - I was wondering if anyone in this mail group has gotten it to work with debian squeeze. IBM talks about installing a libusb and libusb-devel packages - but I only see them for redhat and SUSE - I do not see anything for debian. Can anyone tell their experiences with th

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-09 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/04/12 23:25, Joey L wrote: > You - know I think you might be on to something, because I do not get > any major errors. > And when I start the gdm3 - it starts up perfect. > I think there is the IBM RSA board --- do you think the output is going there > ? > I did not do anything strange to th

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-06 Thread Joey L
You - know I think you might be on to something, because I do not get any major errors. And when I start the gdm3 - it starts up perfect. I think there is the IBM RSA board --- do you think the output is going there ? I did not do anything strange to the setup - I just installed squeeze as is. I do

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-05 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/04/12 16:59, Joey L wrote: > hi - just tried the setting "video=radeon:off" -- did not work You haven't got it set to use a (virtual?) serial port for the console, instead of the video card? Perhaps after installing via the IMM? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-05 Thread Joey L
hi - just tried the setting "video=radeon:off" -- did not work Do you have any other recommendations ? thanks mjh On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 04:55:03PM -0400, Joey L wrote: >> I did not get an answer last time - so I thought I would try this

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-05 Thread Joey L
Also i have read that the next version of the kernel takes care of this issue - I think it is kernel 2.6-32-20 or something like that --- Can you tell me - if i am on squeeze - what would be the proceedure to update to the new kernel ? Is there soemthing easy spelled out on the internet that can he

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-05 Thread Joey L
> Looking at the messages above, you have an ATI Radeon-based video card. > 'lspci' should confirm that. > Thanks for your quick response ...i got the following back - 01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02) But do not know where to go from here. People are workin

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-05 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 04:55:03PM -0400, Joey L wrote: > I did not get an answer last time - so I thought I would try this > again - please help. > > I have an ibm x3650 7979 -- when the system boots up and goes into > grub - and starts to initialize, I get a black screen console. > No login prom

ibm server black screen console

2012-04-04 Thread Joey L
I did not get an answer last time - so I thought I would try this again - please help. I have an ibm x3650 7979 -- when the system boots up and goes into grub - and starts to initialize, I get a black screen console. No login prompt at all. If i enable gdm3 on bootup - i get the gui interface to c