RE: Intel Q965 / Dell Optiplex 745 hard-lockup when X starts.

2011-01-19 Thread EXT-Askew, R W
@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

Re: Intel Q965 / Dell Optiplex 745 hard-lockup when X starts.

2011-01-13 Thread Bill Askew
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

Re: Intel Q965 / Dell Optiplex 745 hard-lockup when X starts.

2011-01-13 Thread Paulo Herrera
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

Re: Intel Q965 / Dell Optiplex 745 hard-lockup when X starts.

2008-07-10 Thread Kenneth MacDonald
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 11:41 -0500, Alex Schumann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, We discovered today that SL5.2 will lock hard when x starts on an Optiplex 745 with intel Q965 onboard video. We get this too. To work around we use the i810 driver rather than the