I recently had my system shut down because of a power outage. I am running red hat 9 and win2k. I have an AMD 1400 with 512 mb sdram.
After restarting the system, the grub bootloader menu comes up fine and win2k works fine. However, after booting red hat everything seems to boot up fine, all system devices are recognized, until right after I log in and the devices screen is done. Then when the system goes onto the desktop everything freezes. I am at the desktop but I have no icons on the desktop and the taskbar has all the icons except the up2date icon and there is no clock.
I am running gnome but even when I try and use kde as the desktop, the same freeze up happens.
I logged in under runlevel 3, but the same situation still exists as far as the desktop freezing up, whenever I did a startx.
I checked under var/log messages and what was mentioned was something about the fb0-7 modules not being located. Apparently the fb modules have something to do with the XFree86 Project.
So I went and checked the XFree86 logs; and it looks like the module for my monitor(if I’m reading this correctly) is not being loaded. It says the [drm] failed to load kernel module ” name”.
I went into the XF86 Config file but everything seems to look ok.
My question then is: Is the module for the monitor not being loaded because the XFree86 modules (fb) aren’t being located, or are the fb modules not being located because the module for the monitor is failing to load?
Has anyone seen this problem before and if so does anyone have any suggestions or ideas where or how I might fix this problem?
Thanks
Mark