rawhide install report: failed - now working with xdriver=vesa

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 14:50 -0400, James Laska wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 11:44 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 22:17 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> > > On 08/16/2009 09:36 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> > > > Did the xdriver=vesa boot parameter and the install is proceeding
> > > > normally.  Now about 85% done, further than it's gotten before.
> > > >
> > > It succeeded. had to add radeon.modeset=0 to GRUB to get it to startup 
> > > correctly.  No way to predict that.
> > 
> > Usual procedure: file a bug on xorg-x11-drv-ati with the appropriate
> > information...
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/Debugging
> > 
> > does the installer boot OK if you use radeon.modeset=0 (but not
> > xdriver=vesa)?
> 
> I suspect I'm seeing something similar.  With the latest rawhide
> (xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-21.fc12.i686 and
> kernel-2.6.31-0.125.4.2.rc5.git2.fc12.i686), I'm unable to login to
> startx without seeing the following segfault.  

G. Wolfe, can you please check your /var/log/Xorg.*.log after trying to
start up with KMS enabled on the affected system to see if your issue is
the same as jlaska's? it's quite important - if this is affecting
multiple cards it may have implications for the Alpha.

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