Bug 160580
| Summary: | Trident Cyberblade (generic) driver causing Whitescreen at install | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Andreas Johansson <andreas> |
| Component: | xorg-x11 | Assignee: | X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4 | CC: | bugzilla, james, jim.cornette, kutka, mas, vineshc |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-06-25 20:21:38 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Andreas Johansson
2005-06-15 21:50:31 UTC
I tried with Trident Blade 3D and Trident 9680. Both showed white screen. I have the Trident Cyberblade/i1 card built in to a cheapish motherboard and get exactly the same fault with FC4; no problem with FC3. I also noticed a problem with FC4 installer not finding a "tty" - couldn't see details! Refer https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160666 Serial mouse is not working. May be related to not finding the "tty"S0/1 I experienced this same white screen behavior with the Trident card in a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S273. No issues with FC3. Same with Winbook XLi Trident Cyber 9397
Fn-F2(LCD/CRT) toggle brings things up correctly if I twiddle it a few times.
NOTE: this is the built in bios based LCD/CRT toggle, (Function-key)-F2.
This allows install to continue. Other problems remain however...
Console mode is corrupted (garbled) when switched to from X. Works fine in FC3.
currently vga=0x317 in grub.conf and 1024x768x24 in xorg.conf tried disabling
DPMS, makes no difference.
lspci -vv
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems Cyber 9397 (rev f3)
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
Memory at fe400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at fede0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Memory at fe800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
This problem is caused by the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a file in FC4. Replacing this with the equivalent from FC3 gives correct display both for the GUI and the text consoles. This bug seems to be the same as #160500 and #161047 - all connected with the Trident CyberBlade video card. Please review bug number 161242 everyone, and try using the libvgahw.a module that is linked to from that bug report. This is just a hunch I'd like to test to see if the problem reported on Matrox and Intel hardware is also causing problems on Trident and other hardware. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161242 Anyone who can test this and provide feedback, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. I could probably test this after doing a text install. But how would I do to get this rigth at install? I use the FC4 DVD as a folder on a FTP to install from. You have to do a text mode install if you're hanging at GUI install time. Please consult Fedora docs and/or mailing list if you require assistance enabling a text mode install. Hope this helps. I had this problem on one of my systems based on the VIA EPIA 5000 motherboard with the Trident Cyberblade (generic) onboard video. I upgraded my FC3 system in text mode to FC4 and experienced all the problems reported here. I then applied the test version of /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a linked in the solution at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161242 and found the my problems with X were resolved. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161242 *** In reference to comment 8 Doing a text install and then replacing the libvgahw.a file in single user mode will still allow firstboot to come up after you replace the file and reboot into regular mode. A message from the fedora users list is below. You might be able to replace this file in other ways just after th install is completed and before rebooting, but this was my first thought. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-June/msg04722.html I hope this helps. Others have tried this with success. Great! It works! Just an overwriting the file libvgahw.a is enough. I actually upgraded from FC3 to FC4 without CD (the manual used sequence of commands including `yum upgrade`). Fortunately I was able to change to text console and set starting level to 3. Since that time I am using text browsers :-) such as `lynx` or `links`. As I see now, it was not so good idea to use upgrade without a CD. Thanks a lot for the `libvgahw.a` file in the page linked above. Jan Kohout |