Anaconda video problems

[Robert L Cochran]

Hi Leon,

Are you using Fedora 10 Snap 3? I installed this on a laptop-based
system: the install was to an external USB hard drive which a Dell D420
laptop boots. I was not installing to the laptop's internal hard drive.
I have a 19" external Dell monitor connected to the laptop too, and I'm
using it as the primary monitor. Also, I did my install as an http
(URL-based) installation where I simply mounted the ISO image of the
installation DVD to a web directory on one of my other computers, burned
the boot.iso image to a CD, pointed Anaconda to the web directory and
let it install that way. It seems much less fussy than an NFS install,
and faster than installing with a physical DVD.

I did not have any trouble with the Anaconda GUI itself. It may have
been because of the installation method I used. I'm not sure what would
have happened if I had burned a physical DVD and installed from that.

However post-install I did have problems with Plymouth displaying ugly
horizontal bars at the bottom of my monitor during the boot process. I
got rid of that by removing the text 'rhgb' from the kernel parameters
shown in grub.conf.  I'm one of those people who feels a strong need to
see kernel messages anyhow. There must be some X problems out there too,
because at least once, if I repeatedly log out and then log in again,
the system would freeze up and I'd have no option but to power the
system off and boot again.

Bob Cochran



Leon Stringer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just got round to downloading F10B so I'm a bit behind on the bug
> activity.
>
> When I got to the second screen of the Anaconda GUI the text corrupted
> as I moved the mouse around.
>
> I see there are some significant video problems in  Bug 464896 -
> (nomodeset) Collective bug for all "Cannot start without nomodeset on
> kernel command line".
>
> I did start the installer with nomodeset but still get these problems.
>
> I took a photo of the screen showing the list title and the list
> elements are corrupted:
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/leon.stringer/fedora/f10b-anaconda1.jpg
>
> I also find that if I switch between page one and two of the wizard a
> few times (i.e. clicking Next and Back) the GUI locks up completely
> (although the mouse cursor still moves).
>
> System is an Intel D845GERG2 board, I'm using the on-board video
> controller.
>
> Is this caused by KMS problems describe in #464896 (even though I've
> used nomodeset)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leon...
>