Redhat 8 Won't startup, need major help

[Plextor]

Ok, I recently bought a Dummies book on Redhat8 and it included it on 2 cd's. I'm still new, so I didn't think this would hurt anything.

Anyways, I have GRUB installed as the bootloader, the kernel passes all the tests and then when it tries to load GNOME, it freaks out. The colors go all weird and all over the screen, you can move the mouse, no keyboard.

I don't know for sure why it does this, but it may be because I have two vid cards, a chipset one and an ATI Radeon 7200 (which is the one I use, and selected during install)

If anyone has any help they might be able to give me, please do. Here are my error logs:

Boot.log (http://members.lycos.co.uk/redpepperforum/boot.log) dmesg (http://members.lycos.co.uk/redpepperforum/dmesg)
Messages file (http://members.lycos.co.uk/redpepperforum/messages)

Sry, the error logs are too big to post.
Thanks for any help.

[redcape]

Did the 'test' button work when you pressed it during the graphical configuration part of the installation?

Does the problem only affect Gnome, or is it also when you select KDE or Failsafe sessions?

Can you post /var/log/XFree86.1.log and /etc/X11/XF86Config ?

[Plextor]

Originally posted by redcape
Did the 'test' button work when you pressed it during the graphical configuration part of the installation?

Does the problem only affect Gnome, or is it also when you select KDE or Failsafe sessions?

Can you post /var/log/XFree86.1.log and /etc/X11/XF86Config ?

Yes, the test did work.

I don't know if it only affects kde/gnome/failsafe, I don't know how to switch inbetween them.

Here is my XFree86.1.log (http://members.lycos.co.uk/redpepperforum/XFree86.1.log) and XF86Config (http://members.lycos.co.uk/redpepperforum/XF86Config.txt) files

[redcape]

In the monitor section of the config file, are the HorizSync and VertRefresh correct?

Does X actually crash, or just look incorrect? You say 'no keyboard', so does that mean you can't kill X with ctrl-alt-delete, or get into a console terminal with ctrl-alt-F1 ?

You might want to edit /etc/inittab and set the runlevel to 3 rather than 5. Then Redhat will boot into the text console and you can load X by typing 'startx' when you want to test your config. I couldn't actually see anything wrong with your config, but hopefully someone else will.

[Plextor]

I tried ctrl+alt+delete and it stays in the screen.

And by weird, I mean it looks like a horizontal tie-die shirt. You can see the beginnings of what would be the gnome desktop, but thats it, and it's only one very small section of the screen you can see.

Also, it looks different every time, as it, the colors.

Also, where do I change the run level, there are different '5' values.

[redcape]

Change the first non-commented line from
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:

[Plextor]

Still doesn't work.

I changed the 5 to 3, and it lets me login now. As soon as I typed startx, it did the same thing again. The mouse moves, no buttons, ctrl+alt+del doesn't work, neither does the console.

Also, the same thing happened with Mandrake a while back, it stopped working as soon as I added the second vid card.

[mdwatts]

Have you specified the BusID in your X config for the Radeon? That may help.

lspci

i.e.

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti200] (rev a3)

/etc/X11/XF86Config (or -4)

Section "Device"
BoardName "GeForce3 Ti 200"
BusID "1:5:0" <--- ENTER BusID
Driver "nv"
Identifier "Device[0]"
VendorName "NVidia"
EndSection

[Plextor]

Ok, got it working.

I had to re-install RH, and now it works. When I had first installed it, I set the color depth to 24 bit, didn't work. 16 Bit works.

Thanks for the help everyone, it helped lead me in the right direction.

[redcape]

I had the exact same problem with Redhat 8.0 and a Geforce 4, but it showed up clearly when I hit 'test' during the install, so I assumed your problem was different.