Rawhide Install even more broken.

[James Laska]

On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 15:04 -0400, James Laska wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 10:40 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> > On the Nvidia 9600gt machine, the screen still goes dark whn the
> > install gets to the point where the language is chosen.  The monitor
> > is flashing a message indicating loss of signal or signal out of tolerance.
> > Alt-F2 et al do not being the screen to life.  Caps lock works.  The three
> > finger Windows salute works and the screen comes to life when the BIOS
> > initializes it.
> > 
> > The amd/ati machine gets an error and exits while trying to start anaconda.
> > It doesn't even get to try looking for devices any more.
> 
> I experienced this also.  I haven't gather additional information yet,
> but there appear to be some kernel changes queued up related to VGA
> output [1].  I'm not a master of the kernel, but I'm asking around to
> see if these are related.

I've filed the following bug to address the problem I'm experiencing ...

514600 - Intel 82G965 requires 'nomodeset' workaround to get working
text-mode

Looking to see if this is specific to drivers or a more generic KMS
problem affecting all adapters.

Thanks,
James

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James Laska         -- jlaska at redhat.com
Quality Engineering -- Red Hat, Inc.
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