Thanks for the comments Paulo Bill Askew PCS Technical Lead 281-226-6920 A Harley Ride A Day, Helps Drive The Blues Away
-----Original Message----- From: Paulo Herrera [mailto:pauloa.herr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 9:50 AM To: EXT-Askew, R W Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@listserv.fnal.gov; Kenneth MacDonald Subject: Re: Intel Q965 / Dell Optiplex 745 hard-lockup when X starts. Hi, I'm running SL 6 on a Dell Optiplex 980 and I also had a blank screen after installation. In my case, the problem was due to using a relatively new NVIDIA graphics card. The work around was to modify the kernel boot options: delete "quiet" and add "nomodeset". Then, I downloaded and installed the latest binary NVIDIA drivers from the NVIDIA site. That solved the problem. Alternatively, you can boot in level 3 (add "3" to the list of kernels options) and install the binary NVIDIA drivers. Hope that helps, Paulo On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Bill Askew <r.w.as...@boeing.com> wrote: > I tried to do a install of 5.5 and 5.4 on this same system. The anaconda > > graphical install wizard did not come up and the screen went blank. > I installed using the text interface and the install finished but, > Like in your case, starting X hangs the system. > I worked around this issues by installing 5.0 the updating to 5.5 > > Just thought I would post to the community that there is still an issue > > with 5.5 and that I also got a hang when using the graphical installation > > interface. > > Cheers >
