Bug 182300

Summary:	Graphical install fails on Dell Dimension 2400 (Intel i810)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	William Shotts <bshotts>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description William Shotts 2006-02-21 18:04:42 UTC

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Description of problem:
On FC5T3 and possibly earlier test releases, anaconda is unable to properly set the display resolution during installation.  While it appears to correctly detect both the graphics controller and the monitor, it always sets the display resolution to 640x480 which is inadequate for the installation (you only see the upper left quaderant of the installation screen.)

Further, if you attempt to install using text mode, X is installed but not configured (no xorg.conf file is created) and /etc/inittab is set to run level 3 rather than 5.

X will run fine on this system.  After performing a text install, I remotely ran the system-config-display to create the conf file and set the default run level to 5 and it works fine.

My graphics controller is detected as a:

VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)


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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2006-02-22 22:49:41 UTC

Fixed in CVS.  We lost a hack to handle i810 bioses that return silly (aka < 1
meg) of video ram