Bug 127143
| Summary: | Blank screen when starting X with Radeon X800 | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Andrew May <andrewmay> | ||||||
| Component: | xorg-x11 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 2 | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-07-05 21:09:32 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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Created attachment 101602 [details]
xorg.conf generated by installer
Created attachment 101603 [details]
xorg log from blank screen
Radeon X800 is not yet supported by the X.Org X server, so the installer defaults to configuring the "vesa" driver and relies on the video card BIOS to set up the card and to set video modes, etc. It is possible that the next release of X.Org X11 might support this card, however it's too early to say just yet. Once support is available in a new X.Org X11 release, a future Fedora Core release may support this card also. Closing as "NOTABUG". |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 Description of problem: New installation of Fedora Core 2 (64bit) on a Athlon 64 3500+ with a Radeon X800 Pro. I was unable to use the graphical installation because when the installer tried to start X I got a blank screen which I could not exit from. Installed using the text installer, but was initially unable to log in because the boot switched to a graphical mode and I got the blank screen. Was able to boot and login after removing the "rhgb" option and specifying runlevel 3. Trying to start X gets the same blank screen which I am unable to get out of (CTRL+ALT+Backspace does nothing) - I am only able to reboot using CTRL+ALT+Delete. When configuring X the graphics card was not recognised so it is trying to use the vesa driver. I did select my monitor (Viewsonic P95f+). I am attaching xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log. I was able to get an X desktop when using the latest version of Knoppix (which I belive is using XFree86). I have tried copying some of the options (e.g. mode lines for the monitor) to xorg.conf, but this has had no effect. I have tried using the radeon driver, but then X fails to start at all (I think because it doesn't recognise the videocard as one it supports). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start X, either at boot time or using "startx" Additional info: