Install using vesa fails with ATI X700

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 03:23 +0100, Patrick wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just installed F7T1 i386 on my Acer 4005 x86_64 laptop on a separate
> partition I had reserved for F7T1. This laptop has an ATI X700 video
> chipset. On both FC6 and F7T1 anaconda correctly detects the ATI X700
> but when it starts X the output gets sent to the external monitor or
> TV-out port so I only get a black screen. On FC6 I could specify vesa as
> a boot option which then worked fine. However, F7T1 does understand it
> needs to use vesa but it fails to start X and it falls back to text
> mode.
> 
> Anyone had similar experiences with using vesa?

Why you would do this when the X700 is supported by the radeon driver, I
do not know.

The vesa driver in F7t1 ought to include all the latest fixes.  If you
can scrape /tmp/ramfs/X.log off the machine at install time after the
text mode fallback that would probably tell you why it failed.

- ajax