FC3T2 candidate

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at sbcglobal.net
Thu Sep 9 00:15:32 UTC 2004


Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 03:51 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote: 
> 
>>I finally installed the test candidate and found X not working, avc
>>errors, general features that I consider bothersome. With this messages,
>>I wanted to relay attached avc errors, xorg-x11 errors etc. I won't but
>>will files a bug report with the files soon.
> 
> 
> Tried FC3T2 candidate upgrade after "yum update" seriously broke my
> system along the lines discussed in several earlier threads.
> 
> 
>>As a general problem. I could not install using the GUI mode. My screen
>>would change to graphics mode, then hang.
> 
> 
> Same problem here.  Also can't get network install to work.  Seems to be
> the same problem as
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131293

I have a toranado card, but this is a 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com 
Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74).

This works fine with the latest kernels - kernel-2.6.8-1.541 and
kernel-2.6.8-1.540. I am running with acpi=on specified in the grub.conf 
file. I get an inet address and everything. With the reealtech NIC, I 
get a hardware address, but no inet address.

Realtech - alias eth0 ne2k-pci
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 52:54:05:E4:A4:39
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:2694 (2.6 KiB)  TX bytes:1938 (1.8 KiB)
           Interrupt:10 Base address:0xdf80

The "Other" Tornado - alias eth1 3c59x
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:02:FA:69:F3
           inet addr:192.168.1.103  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:302 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:261 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:254994 (249.0 KiB)  TX bytes:27932 (27.2 KiB)
           Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00

Kernel line specifying acpi=on
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.541 ro root=LABEL=/1 acpi=on 3
         initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.541.img


> 
> Have had to boot with "acpi=off" or "noacpi" on this machine (IBM A21p
> notebook) since FC1 to get Ethernet to work, but this does not help now.
> All kernels tried since 533 (538, 540, 541) fail as described in above
> Bugzilla.  Last kernel to have working Ethernet on this hardware was
> 526, but that broke after last yum update, even after downgrading
> module-init-tools.  After anaconda upgrade to FC3T2 candidate Ethernet
> was still non-functional and X froze 
> 
> 
>>After installation, X has the
>>problem with the refreshing of the screen w/ the selected version of
>>xorg-x11. This is as described by another person using the 815 driver.
>>The screen has stripes from left to right, then some portions appear on
>>the screen. You have to hover a mouse over menu items in order to launch
>>anything. Also not all screen elements appear on applications that you
>>launch.
> 
> 
> After anaconda upgrade to FC3T2 candidate, Ethernet was still non-
> functional and X froze after attempting to start from runlevel 3.  Tried
> a clean install with no better results - system freezes in RHGB, or when
> trying to start X from runlevel 3 on non-graphical boot.
 >01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility
 >M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)

> 
> Falling back to FC3T1 for now.

Hopefully the FC3T2 discs can be improved from the feedback from testers 
of the release candidate. Good luck on the next attempt.

The X failure, in general seems to be related to fonts for the server 
not being present. The trouble with the ATI Rage graphics card scares 
me. Did this happen w/ all of the kernels tried. I tried X on a computer 
running FC2 with one of the earlier CVS test versions and it worked 
better. I'm asking mainly because X was all that I upgraded (plus deps 
that were pulled in). This computer uses the radeon driver and is a laptop.

Jim

> 
> Phil
> 
> 
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