[NTLUG:Discuss] Gnome won't start...

[Steve Baker]

kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> 
> Fred James wrote:
> > New machine:
> > P4-2.0GHz with ATI Radeon 7500 (AGP) video card
> > Red Hat 7.2
> >
> > Installed binaries for XFree86 4.2.0, and can get a graphic login and
> > some sort of "desktop" - looks like X-Windows by itself (no Gnome).
> >
> > The only clue I have found so far is this line for /var/log/messages,
> > but I am not sure it has anything to do with it:
> >
> >     "modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134"
> >
> > Any assistance or pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> I doubt that message is pertinant to your problem, but you never know. :-)
> Try "grep char-major-10-134 /etc/modules.conf" and see if you get anything; if
> so, that should clue you into what device is having problems.  I don't have a
> device like that.

I don't have a device major-10-134 either - but there are three other major-10's
(10-135, 10-175 and 10-240) and they are all to do with 'agpgart' - which is the
AGP port interface layer.

Tha AGP port is where modern graphics cards like the Radion are generally
connected - so it *could* be related to a graphics problem.  I have an nVidia
GeForce card - but you have a Radion - so I guess that *could* possibly explain
a different minor handle number...but it's also possible that RedHat and SuSE
Linux (which I use) choose different AGP minor numbers - it's also possible that
RedHat uses port 10 for something completely different.

I agree though that this doesn't sound pertinant to a problem of getting
Gnome started.  I'd have thought that once you'd got a graphical login,
the graphics hardware must be at least able to render a Gnome desktop.

It seems much more likely that Gnome didn't install correctly and the modprobe
is a red herring.

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