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Fedora Core 5 on Compaq Proliant 2500
In article , NewsReader wrote:
wrote: I ran XWindows last night and it worked great, but when I logged out, I got an error that the system had crashed out of the interface and it hung up the system. Now that I'm on RH9, I ran an apt update/upgrade and d/l 161 updates. That took nearly an hour, so I went to bed. Tonight I plan to attempt a kernal upgrade. Then I want to begin the RH9 to FC1 upgrade. Steve Compaq video cards usually have modified firmware and have great difficulty working with the linux provided drivers. I have had to disable the CPQ integrated video and stuff in a standard display card to get X working on other systems. I usually use the "text" parameter when installing linux on a server to avoid having to deal with windowing programs and CPQ video cards. A point to consider is: why try to run a CPQ 2500 as a workstation? A server class machine will run quite nicely at init 3 and there are quite nice management programs (i.e. webmin, vnc, etc) that can give you a GUI console without putting additional overhead on the server. That is effectively what I do.. I've got a 6400 in my garage all racked up and almost never use the screen or keyboard on it.. 99.9% of any management activities are remote.. I do use X on it, but use a laptop running OS-X which has an X-server installed and do a secure-shell over to the server and fire up apps remotely. It works great, and while I do have X installed on the server, it's only from a client capacity which I can live with. Anyway, YMMV! -- Rick |
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Fedora Core 5 on Compaq Proliant 2500
It's my goal to be able to manage the server with the command line
only. I use GUI in linux only when I can't figure out the command for something. It may be a moot point. I can't get Xwindows, KDE or Gnome to run. X locks up. The others just error out. Steve Rick F. wrote: In article , NewsReader wrote: wrote: I ran XWindows last night and it worked great, but when I logged out, I got an error that the system had crashed out of the interface and it hung up the system. Now that I'm on RH9, I ran an apt update/upgrade and d/l 161 updates. That took nearly an hour, so I went to bed. Tonight I plan to attempt a kernal upgrade. Then I want to begin the RH9 to FC1 upgrade. Steve Compaq video cards usually have modified firmware and have great difficulty working with the linux provided drivers. I have had to disable the CPQ integrated video and stuff in a standard display card to get X working on other systems. I usually use the "text" parameter when installing linux on a server to avoid having to deal with windowing programs and CPQ video cards. A point to consider is: why try to run a CPQ 2500 as a workstation? A server class machine will run quite nicely at init 3 and there are quite nice management programs (i.e. webmin, vnc, etc) that can give you a GUI console without putting additional overhead on the server. That is effectively what I do.. I've got a 6400 in my garage all racked up and almost never use the screen or keyboard on it.. 99.9% of any management activities are remote.. I do use X on it, but use a laptop running OS-X which has an X-server installed and do a secure-shell over to the server and fire up apps remotely. It works great, and while I do have X installed on the server, it's only from a client capacity which I can live with. Anyway, YMMV! -- Rick |
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