Bug 14456
| Summary: | [laptop - text] lcd backlight turned off untill power cycle in post install configuration | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Hans de Goede <hdegoede> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | Winston rc1 | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-08-08 19:43:40 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Hans de Goede
2000-07-22 09:44:37 UTC
Probably also related: No Xsetup done during text install: bug 14457 Xconfigurator segfaulting: bug 14458 That's because kudzu is run during the post install. :) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14455 *** Just did a fresh install of beta5 booting from the pcmcia floppy with: linux noprobe The laptop still goes black, so either the noprobe option is no longer used / not the right option to use, or what I believe, doesn't stop kudzu from dcc probing. This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Release-Candidate #1 Does it still happen at exactly the same place in the install? The noprobe option is not used in interactive installs. This cannot be fixed at this time - you can continue the install successfully so if your X configuration needs touchup you can run Xconfigurator after you reboot. First of all, the screen goes completly black, so this is a cannot complete install bug, not everyone has a spare monitor handy to plug in, and other systems are bound to be bitten by this too. The help screens on the bootdisks clearly state that you can use expert mode to install on buggy hardware, and that in this case no autoprobing will be done. I would expect noprobe todo a normal install, without any probing as in expert mode. That is what I plea for, and what afaik 6.1 used todo. But letts say I use expert mode, then I presume kudzu won't do dcc probing and Xconfigurator will be run with --nodccprobe? If not I concider that a bug, and I strongly urge for a noprobe option doing the noprobing effect of expert without all the other questions I don't want to answer and have no need for. If this is not feasible for this release, then fix this in expert mode, and defer the noprobe RFE. And yes, afaik it still happens in exact the same spot in the install. Correction, now it happens after the bootdisk creation screen, and before beta5 it happended before this screen afair (as far as I remember). So this means that I now can just blindly press enter, since Xconfigurator crashes also. Now if you guys also added an automatic reboot if nothing is done for 15 seconds, then this bug might go unnoticed ;) Fixed internally (expert mode passes --noddcprobe) Actually that would fix bug 14457, do you also stop kudzu from doing the ddc probe, that causes the blackscreen, see bug 14455. So to be very clear, kudzu used to blank the screen, that was fixed for regular boots by not doing dcc probes on regular boots, but kudzu still does the dcc thing in the installer (even in expert mode the screen goes blank) And Xconfigurator crashes, that is supposed to be fixed by a new Xconfigurator in general, and it can also be fixed by passing the -nodccprobe, which is what should happen in expert mode. So the fix is correct, but does this stop kudzu from dcc-probing too, since that causes this bug, passing -noddcprobe to Xconfigurator actually should fix bug 14457 |