Bug 119663
Summary: | System stops after first start (monitor blanks and hd stops) on Dell Inspiron 8600 with Ati Radeon 8600 Pro Turbo | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Alexander Kogler <koxman> |
Component: | xorg-x11 | Assignee: | X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint> |
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 2 | CC: | mboxof-rhbug |
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Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-12-22 16:31:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Alexander Kogler
2004-04-01 07:41:12 UTC
I had similar simptoms. I have HP nx9000 with Radeon AGP 340M video card. In addition to the above - the keybard hungs as well. It got even stranger when I succeeded to have X (kde and gnome) running after a few tries (first init level 1, then 3 and then it worked for good!) This is not all, when rebooting - the computer hungs also. None of these happened in FC2 T1. A similar but different problem here. I didn't encounter any problem during installation. My ATI 9200 card was correctly detected. After installation, X hang when trying to start firstboot. Background image corrupted, but mouse can move. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't work. The only way out is the hardware reset button. I downloaded latest driver from ATI website and force installed it (with some conflicts with the stock display driver). Despite the errors shown during the installation, X works now. I am right now typing in Mozilla Firefox running on FC2 Test2. :) My hardware: Athlon XP 2500+ ABit NF7-S (nForce2) DDR 400 RAM ATI Radeon 9200 The Problems you have doesn't seem to have something to do with my problem. I don't have any chance to get to the console or do something e lse (like installing the ati driver) because the system hangs at startup after setting the hostname (this is the last thing I can read on the loading screen before the system stops). The Display blackens, the harddisk is doing nothing and the keyboard doesn't react at all .. a (hmm) black screen of death :). I tried to set higher resolutions after firststart (like 1400x1050 (i didn't find 1680x1050 in the monitor section <- would be a request for the final)). After restart it uses the higher resolution (for about 4 or 5 seconds in the loadingscreen (and then blackens again :( Well, I didn't get any chance to log into the console either, as "firstboot" is part of the boot sequence. I used a trick. As I have RH9 installed on the same machine, I booted into RH9, mount the FC2 partition and edit the XF86Config to change video driver from "radeon" to "vesa". This caused X to crash instead of hang. That gave me a chance to login in console mode and force install the ATI driver. The proper way should be using some kernel parameter or key press during boot up to boot into console mode or single user mode directly. You can google a bit on that. I am having the exact same problem, but i have an Acer Aspire 1501 which uses an ATI mobility Radeon 9600 64mb the install was fine, but after the user setup and the sound settings, i get a black screen. using Fedora Core 2 Test 2 i am not using the ATI driver but instead the vesa, since i've had bad luck with the ati driver in the past. i set the res to 1400x1050 which is the res for my lcd. to get around this problem i used the install cd and did a rescue, change the inittab to boot into runlevel 3 instead now i get a console login, and i can run x, as root only... but if i logoff then the same thing happens, black screen and the system pretty much stops I also observed X-crashes right after installing FC2-test2 on an Acer Aspire 1501 - ATI mobility Radeon 9600 64mb. No matter what resolution I tried to enforce. Installing Fedora1 worked like a charm since there the SVGA X-server works just fine up to 1400x1050. I hope the SVGA issue is fixed since no one can tell when ATI comes up with proprietary drivers which are compatible the latest X version *and* the 2.6.x kernel. Btw. X didn't completely crash the machine. The screen went black and I couldn't go back to the console. However, Ctrl-Alt-Del still caused a 'clean' shutdown. This was mis-filed against "XFree86" which doesn't exist in FC2. X.Org replaced XFree86 in FC2 and all newer OS releases. "xorg-x11" is the correct component. In reply to comment #6: >I tried to enforce. Installing Fedora1 worked like a charm since >there the SVGA X-server works just fine up to 1400x1050. I hope the >SVGA issue is fixed since no one can tell when ATI comes up with There is only one X server in Red Hat Linux 8 and newer OS releases, the XFree86 server in RHL 8 and 9, and FC1, and X.Org X server in FC2 and newer. There is no "SVGA" X server included in Red Hat OS products since Red Hat Linux 7.3. The SVGA X server is actually named XF86_SVGA and was part of XFree86 3.3.6 which last shipped in RHL 7.3. Not sure where you got SVGA server from, but was not part of any Fedora Core release, and our XFree86 and Xorg packages explicitly flag the older X servers as "Obsoltes" which will cause them to be forcibly removed even on upgrades from older OS's. Having said all that, Radeon 9600 is not supported officially until Fedora Core 3 in X.Org X11 6.8.1. In Fedora Core 2 it was unsupported but the driver had experimental code for it that worked for some people. In FC1, it was totally unsupported. In that case, the solution is to upgrade to FC3 in order to get proper Radeon 9600 support. Hope this helps. Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE" |