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Description of problem: Downloaded and installed the kernel version 2.4.21-20EL. At boot time Kudzu configured my ATI Radeon 9600se card (supposedly using the newly downloaded ATI 9600 radeon driver). Crashed after login/password input. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.From Professional Workstation newly installed from cds, ran up2date to download and install all packages. 2.At reboot, kudzu attempts to configure the graphics card - ATI radeon 9600se 3.System crashes after logging in root/password. Actual results: System crashed, had to reboot, run in failsafe mode, copy the old Xconfig86 file and reboot again. Expected results: Should boot cleanly with the right driver and not the VESA driver. Additional info: Also did the following - kernel 2.4.21-20 /usr/src/linux2.4#make mrproper /usr/src/linux2.4#make xconfig Configured whatever is needed to run ATI cards /usr/src/linux2.4#make dep /usr/src/linux2.4#make clean /usr/src/linux2.4#make bzImage modules modules_install install Looks for module sata_nv, does not find it and fails to run mkinitrd So for the time being I get rid of the entry for the module in /etc/modules.conf and rerun everything to make a new image. I get a kernel panic at boot time, pointing to the entry in grub.conf. So I reboot and change the entry in grub.conf to root=/dev/hda5. Then get a new set of messages at boot time saying /proc/usb/bus not found.. etc.etc. So basically my 2.4.21-20 is defunct now. Please help. I can still run on the older version of the kernel, 2.4.21-4 I also did one other thing.. in the Makefile in /usr/src/linux2.4 I took of the word custom from <version>custom. I hope this is ok. Is there also a way that I can reinstall all the downloaded packages from /var, so I can get my system back to normal. Thanks for your attention. Anita.
System Information: AMD Ahtlon64 processor, MSI motherboard using nVidia nForce3 250Gb chipset. Thanks.
Thanks for your report. Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 will be the first Enterprise Linux release to officially support the Radeon 9600SE and similar variants. While RHEL 3 does not officially support this hardware, once Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is officially released, RHEL 3 customers will be able to upgrade to the new operating system release via Red Hat Network. Setting status to "NEXTRELEASE", as RHEL4 will be the first Red Hat Enterprise Linux release to officially support this hardware.