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Topic: No X, SuperMicro motherboard, ATI mobo video

My Dell 1024x768 flat panel is giving me "can't display this video mode" when X starts. I dug around in the forums here but solutions that I've found so far seem to have already been added to the latest 0.6.2-2 ISO (ie. the modeset boot params).

Here's what lspci tells me:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7501 Memory Controller Hub (rev 01)
00:00.1 Class ff00: Intel Corporation E7500/E7501 Host RASUM Controller (rev 01)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7500/E7501 Hub Interface B PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CA LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CA Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:1c.0 PIC: Intel Corporation 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04)
01:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04)
01:1e.0 PIC: Intel Corporation 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04)
01:1f.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04)
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
04:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link)
04:02.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
04:03.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 61)
04:03.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 61)
04:03.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 63)
04:04.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
04:05.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 10)

With Forcevideo I tried the vesa and nv options. I don't know where to look to see what other drivers are available to try. (I'm a server guy who drives a shell, and rarely use X. So I'm not familiar with debugging it.)

To capture the above, I did find I could insert my USB Flash stick and see it detected and mapped to sdb1, so I just "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt" and then "lspci > /mnt/lspci.txt" to capture it.

What's the next step in figuring out how to get X to come up?

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Re: No X, SuperMicro motherboard, ATI mobo video

Maybe change the boot parameter radeon.modeset=0 to radeon.modeset=1?
Or give testing GParted live 0.6.2-5 a try.

Steven.

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Re: No X, SuperMicro motherboard, ATI mobo video

I was able to boot Puppy 5.10 and run gparted from that, and successfully moved and resized cloned partitions on my upgraded Windows XP drive.

http://puppylinux.org/