Re: Some bugs, where to file them?

[Phil Schaffner <Philip R Schaffner nasa gov>]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 16:14 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:49:27 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
> <kyrre solution-forge net> wrote:
> > I have had some difficulties with installing a box with a "RIVA128" gfx
> > card.
> > 
... snip ...
> 
> It's difficult to know if your system really is hanging.. or if there
> is a small problem with the display drivers that is affecting X
> startup for rhgb and firstboot.. without some more information.  Doing
> a fresh install and booting without the boot options quiet and rhgb
> would be interesting... to see if firstboot behaves without running
> rhgb. Similarly doing an install and preventing firstboot from running
> to see if X starts up correctly would be useful.

Might try booting to runlevel 3 (type "a" at grub boot screen, backspace
to delete "rhgb quiet" then "3<Enter>"), log in as root, and do

# system-config-display --reconfig

Check detected hardware carefully to make sure it matches yours.

Phil