Bug 12018

Summary:	GUI installer blacks out screen
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Stephen Rasku <redhat>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Matt Wilson <msw>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.1
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Description Stephen Rasku 2000-06-09 07:19:33 UTC

I am installing on a P90 with an ATI card currently loaded with RH6.0.  X
is currently configured and working.

I created a boot diskette from boot.img and booted it.  At the prompt, I
selected GUI install by pressing enter.  The last thing I saw before the
screen blacked out is:

Probing for mouse type...

Followed by a bunch of stuff that went by too fast for me to see before the
screen blacked out.  The (4x) CD-ROM spins for awhile then eventually
stops.	The screen stays black for the limit of my patience.

Comment 1 Gene Czarcinski 2000-06-09 08:40:03 UTC

I also experienced this problem on a Compaq DeskPro PII with an ATI RagePro with
8MB video ram and a Compaq V75 monitor.

I did get the system to install running in text mode.

Gene

Comment 2 Brock Organ 2000-06-09 13:49:44 UTC

for tracking purposes, could you supply the pci IDs for your cards ...?

(ie for the sample S3 machine below, the pci IDs are 5333:8a01:

[root@foobar /root]# lspci
00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 01)
[root@foobar /root]# lspci -n
00:0c.0 Class 0300: 5333:8a01 (rev 01)
[root@foobar /root]# 

)

Comment 3 Stephen Rasku 2000-06-10 07:54:40 UTC

I currently have Red Hat 6.0 installed and it doesn't appear to have that
command installed.  I can't even install from text due to bug 12041 so I am
basically dead in the water.

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2000-06-13 01:00:44 UTC

lspci is from the pciutils package, which I don't remember being installed by
default in 6.2, but it should be easy enough to grab the package and install

Comment 5 Stephen Rasku 2000-06-17 21:23:35 UTC

I finally managed to install beta1 and was able to get lspci to work.  "lspci"
gives:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1451 (rev bd)
00:02.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1449 (rev b2)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 210888GX [Mach64 GX]
00:06.0 IDE interface: CMD Technology Inc PCI0640 (rev 02)     

lspci -n gives:

00:00.0 Class 0600: 10b9:1451 (rev bd)
00:02.0 Class 0000: 10b9:1449 (rev b2)
00:05.0 Class 0300: 1002:4758
00:06.0 Class 0101: 1095:0640 (rev 02)

Comment 6 Brock Organ 2000-06-23 19:50:34 UTC

thank you for your extra effort getting those PCI IDs ...! :)

Comment 7 Matt Wilson 2000-07-13 15:16:25 UTC

Fixed in beta 3

Comment 8 Matt Wilson 2000-07-13 15:17:59 UTC

*** Bug 12041 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Brock Organ 2000-08-22 21:17:58 UTC

verified fix ... (synchronous reads in loop device issue)