Mandriva Boot problem..

[Dark Star]

Hi
Till I get my hands on Mandriva Spring and Hardy.. I want a temporary OS . So I use madriva 08 free edition. the problem is. When I boot normally I had black/grey sccreen after the Boot Splash finishes.. It never went to the Log-In GDM/KDM Screen. To reach there i had to bot into Safe Mode and moving further by pressing CTRL+D

how can I boot from Normal; Mode ? Is it some VGA problem ?

Regards

 

[praka123]

seems to me a resolution problem.what is the resolution you need?

 

[Dark Star]

^^Resolution :S .. It doesn't even reach GDM screen when I boot via Normal Mode.. But I can acess mandriva when I boot via Safe Mode & CTRL +D/

 

[praka123]

^yeah,thats what I asked!when xorg.conf got a higher resolution set by the distro,what else can u expect?eh?it wont reach gdm
so remove the unwanted resolutions from /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then try again!

 

[Dark Star]

No .. nothing happened.. Here is my Xorg.conf.. I have removed the extra reso.. So this is the edited .conf fiile..

# File generated by XFdrake (rev 230776)

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite"
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerFlags"
    #DontZap # disable <Ctrl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
    #DontZoom # disable <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
    AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
    Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
    Load "extmod"
    Load "type1"
    Load "freetype"
    Load "glx" # 3D layer
    Load "dri" # direct rendering
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard1"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "monitor1"
    VendorName "Plug'n Play"
    ModelName "T710BH "
    HorizSync 30-71
    VertRefresh 50-160
    
    # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
    # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
    ModeLine "768x576"     50.00  768  832  846 1000   576  590  595  630
    
    # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
    ModeLine "768x576"     63.07  768  800  960 1024   576  578  590  616
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    VendorName "Intel Corporation"
    BoardName "Intel 810 and later"
    Driver "intel"
    Option "DPMS"
    Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    [B]Identifier "screen1"
    Device "device1"
    Monitor "monitor1"
    DefaultColorDepth 24
    
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 8
        Modes "1280x1024"
    EndSubsection
    
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 15
        Modes "1280x1024"
    EndSubsection
    
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 16
        Modes "1280x1024"
    EndSubsection
    
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 24
        Modes "1280x1024"
    EndSubsection
EndSection[/B]

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout1"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    Screen "screen1"
EndSection

 

[Faun]

try to remove the subsection containing Depth 24 line

 

[Dark Star]

Edit : It worked .. I mean removing the resolution. .there was some problem with /etc/fstab Lemme see if it works perfectly

 

[Dark Star]

Still not fixed: | Well lets see this error vanishes with 2008.1

 

[Pat]

I never got Mandriva 2008 to work on my lappy! It was probably an issue with display but I never bothered to find out! 2008.1 worked fine though! One thing you could try on 2008 is selecting VESA drivers instead of ati or nv that must have been enabled by default! Anyways good luck..

P.S: Mandriva , even with the spring version, is not good enough to compete with hardy IMO

 

[Dark Star]

Nothing.. Didn't worked.. .

 

[mehulved]

Check for errors in Xorg.0.log are there any? They can be found by lines starting with EE