CentOS 5.4 off-center on SuperMicro console
I have a weird situation with a new installation of CentOS 5.4 x64, on a SuperMicro X7SBI server. The server has a SuperMicro X7SBi motherboard, board ATI ES1000 and Core2Quad Q9505 CPU. The kernel is
When I login to the console, using a “17 CRT monitor (haven’t tested others), the screen is off-center to the right. This happens as soon as the boot loaders gets to:
“waiting for driver initialization”
Below are asome photos to show what happens.
Other Linux distro’s, including Fedora Core 11, FC 12, Ubuntu 9.10 and OpenFiler 2.3 works fine though. The only thing I can think of is the video driver, but I don’t have X installed, so it can’t be that. And I’ve reinstalled CentOS 3 times already thinking I did something wrong with the installation.
Ok, so some “clever guy” suggested I through away the CRT monitor, and push the auto adjust button on the monitor. wow, how profound.
Just to prove him wrong, I put an LCD monitor on the server and bypassed the KVM switch, but the problem still remains.
http://blog.softdux.com/everything-todo-with-linux/centos-5-4-off-center-on-supermicro-console/attachment/30042010139
This is not a problem with the monitor, but probably something with the onboard graphics card of the Super Micro server. I just don’t know what exactly to look for.