F11 mode setting fails on Radeon

Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu
Sun Apr 12 22:43:23 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 22:58 +0200, François Cami wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:03:57 -0400
> Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I tried the F11 beta snapshot 1 live CD on my Thinkpad T41 (Radeon
> > Mobility 7500).  
> > 
> > When I boot with default options, the boot screen lights up in the lower
> > left corner.  The lit portion of the screen spreads until the entire
> > screen is mostly white.  The machine appears to continue to boot, and
> > the keyboard remains responsive (at least caps-lock toggles the LED),
> > but nothing I type appears to have any effect.  In particular,
> > ctrl-alt-del doesn't reboot, ctrl-alt-bksp doesn't restart X, and
> > ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't give me a virtual console.
> > 
> > Booting with the nomodeset option seems to work just fine (though, of
> > course, without the graphical boot screen).
> > 
> > Which component should get this bug report?
> 
> xorg-x11-drv-ati please, mention [KMS] in the subject line.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495422

Thanks.

> 
> François
> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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