Bug 123499

Summary:	Scrambled video during install
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Olafur Sigurgeirsson <olafur>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	2	CC:	alan, pfrields
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Description Olafur Sigurgeirsson 2004-05-18 21:25:10 UTC

Description of problem:
After booting from DVD (md5sum OK) and selecting any install option, 
linux, linux nofb, linux text and so on, the screen becomes 
unreadable after "Loading linux ....."

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Booting from DVD

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from DVD
2. Select any booting option
3. After "Loading....." screen becomes unreadable.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:


Intel PIII 750MHz
512MB RAM
Nvidia Geforce 2 64MB
IDE HD
Aopen MB
Dell Triniton Monitor

System been used for endless OS's over the years.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-05-18 23:13:47 UTC

After loading what?  Loading linux or loading something else?  (Has
the blue background of the loader come up yet)?  Or after "Loading
anaconda"?

Comment 2 Olafur Sigurgeirsson 2004-05-19 05:37:21 UTC

Loading vmlinuz.......
Some other line, to fast.......
After this it creates a new screen that is garbled, I can see that 
something if scolling down the screen, just cant read it.
If I boot with "linux text" then after some time I can make the 
outlines of a usual question box, just cant read a single letter.

Comment 3 Alan Cox 2004-05-21 23:51:36 UTC

If you also boot with the option "nofb" does this help ?

Comment 4 Olafur Sigurgeirsson 2004-05-22 10:36:35 UTC

Using both DVD and CD's to boot from I get the same behavior.
Tried linux text , linux nofb , linux resolution=800x600 and 
everything else I see in the help screens of F2, F3, F4 after the PC 
boots from the DVD/CD.
I can see a difference, like when I use linux nofb the pattern of the 
scrambled data I see is different, because it is ofcause displaying 
different things, but I can only make out few lines, never read any 
text.

Comment 5 Need Real Name 2004-09-26 23:51:16 UTC

I get exactly the same problem on my test system:

AMD K6-2 450
320MB RAM
Epox MVP4A MB with integrated Trident Blade 3D graphics controller
Samsung SyncMaster 753DFX monitor

Comment 6 Dave Jones 2005-04-16 06:03:27 UTC

Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be
provided by Red Hat.  The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel
updates for security problems only.

If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please
try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the
product version accordingly.

Thank you.