Preupgrade to rawhide fails with VGA monitor going out of range (i915)
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Thu Sep 10 07:25:30 UTC 2009
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:26:20AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:44:24PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 21:51 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >
> > > Any ideas/tips?
> >
> > try 'nomodeset xdriver=vesa' or just 'nomodeset vesa', that may work
> > around it during the upgrade. then you can test it once rawhide is
> > installed and see if you can find an error message in the X logs.
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> I tried both, but no luck :( computer crashed with both of them..
> I have to press reset button to powercycle.
>
> It crashes after anaconda is started, and I guess X should start up..
>
> More ideas?
>
Hmm.. I wonder if it's related to intel gfx regression in 2.6.21-rc9
reported on lkml. symptoms are pretty close..
-- Pasi
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