Topic: how to install sme9 if your ati amd graphic card is not detected.

[bpkheops]

Hi. I had this problem with my asrock a75m , the video chip is on the motherboard. It's amd / ati 6530.

Symptom : after install when you boot, after grub, your screen is freezed.

Install with an other graphic card momentarily, when you are on login prompt, use elrepo distro as described here : http://wiki.contribs.org/ELRepo

Install the package kmod-fglrx with. yum --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-fglrx

And voila! You can remove the other graphic card. Enjoy your sme9 
With elrepo driver, you don't need to do more action when you update your kernel.

Put a word if this page help you.

[stephdl]

like you could see in bugs below, it seems that you need to add the parameters 'nomodeset' in the file /boot/grub/grub.conf after the parameter 'quiet'

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8488
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8190

It is not a smeserver bug, but it is a centos6 bug. If you search in the web you can find some issues with guys who had to modify their grub option for adding 'nomodeset'

It seems that some ATI and INTEL card are the cause of the issue.

could you test for us to install again your server a new time, eventually use the second options of the cdrom (vesa driver), after the installation, start in single mode (at the grub screen press 'e' and add 'single' if you cannot have screen without this action. Then after that add 'nomodeset as asked above

[JohnG]

like you could see in bugs below, it seems that you need to add the parameters 'nomodeset' in the file /boot/grub/grub.conf after the parameter 'quiet'

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8488
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8190

It is not a smeserver bug, but it is a centos6 bug. If you search in the web you can find some issues with guys who had to modify their grub option for adding 'nomodeset'

It seems that some ATI and INTEL card are the cause of the issue.

could you test for us to install again your server a new time, eventually use the second options of the cdrom (vesa driver), after the installation, start in single mode (at the grub screen press 'e' and add 'single' if you cannot have screen without this action. Then after that add 'nomodeset as asked above

If we're talking bug 8488, then I don't believe it's a centos bug since centos 6.5 installed without an issue on my machine. Both the grub option as well as using the vesa driver were workarounds for me.

[stephdl]

thanks for your feedback, do you have a screen on your server, do the display is not bigger than without the vesa driver. Of course I say that but you could compare with another server.

In http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8488 I have started to propose a patch, we need to discuss of that

see http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8488#c8 where I recall the problem I have had with my test server but Indeed the display issue can concern only my hardware.

[JohnG]

My system has a physical LCD monitor with max resolution of 1280x1024. I tried other monitors but none with a higher resolution.

[rodgermoore]

Hi there,

I have a AMD ATI HD5750 graphics card in my system. It has a very loud and annoying fan running at full speed when running the default graphics driver or running the vesa driver.

I tried the suggestion in this post to get the fglrx running but in order to use the advanced controls like aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 50" it needs the xorg server running. At this point I'm stuck as I can't seem to get Xorg started without errors.

I disabled the default driver to load in kernel (using nomode in grub) and it seems the fglrx driver is loaded. But using a command like fglrxinfo gives me: "unable to open display (null)".

Any suggestions on this? Many thanks!

[stephdl]

Any suggestions on this? Many thanks!

You don't need a card like this in a server (1GO of memory), replace it by another card. Now IMHO ATI and linux are always nightmares

Edit:  we are talking of that

[rodgermoore]

You don't need a card like this in a server (1GO of memory), replace it by another card. Now IMHO ATI and linux are always nightmares

Edit:  we are talking of that

Hi Stephdl,

Thanks for your reply on this and I totally understand your point. But you know how it goes right... "Hey I still have some parts lying around here. Let's buy myself a new case and put it all together for a small and nice new development / testing server". So rather than buying a new graphics card I was hoping to get this one up and running.

As it is just a testing server I'm free to tweak and test things out, suggestions on getting this up and running with the HD5750 are still welcome. In the future it maybe beneficial for other users too...

Thanks!

[stephdl]

As it is just a testing server I'm free to tweak and test things out, suggestions on getting this up and running with the HD5750 are still welcome. In the future it maybe beneficial for other users too...

You can try unplug the fan and remove the casing around the fan....you cannot do something else. Some graphic cards can not have their fans settled by the bios....you need the driver made by the constructor. I remind you that you have no xorg and thus no driver to load. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm interested by other solutions.