Bug 25927

Summary:	Lowres failover mishandled'?
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	R P Herrold <herrold>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.1
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Description R P Herrold 2001-02-03 23:50:33 UTC

Host properly found that an X install has not possible with a framebuffer,
but did not seem to fail into testing lowres .. instead it seemed to have
failed directly to a text install ... 

This may or not be a bug, but I would expect that it would try lowres on
the way to a text install.  This may not be a justified expectation.

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Perhaps a message indicating that NOFB was not possible, FOLLOWED by a
'testing lowres capability' --- and then a ten second pause and cutover to
the TUI install ?

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-02-09 08:56:48 UTC

We've changed lowres to not use framebuffer at all...there are just too many
problems with framebuffer in 8-bit color.  For the most part, framebuffer is
fine at 16-bit color.  Most cards either work in 16-bit color framebuffer just
fine, or they fail gracefully and we can fall back to the native X server.  In
8-bit framebuffer mode, however, some cards' color palette is all messed up.  So
now, lowres will function the same way that the installer in Red Hat Linux 7
did.  That is, 640x480 - not in framebuffer.  This should fix the problem.
Please reopen this bug if the problem persists in the future.

Comment 2 Brock Organ 2001-02-19 16:33:47 UTC

verified fix in qa0217.1 ...

Comment 3 R P Herrold 2001-03-02 01:59:15 UTC

7.1RC1 -- verified and works fine on my two test usits which showed the issue ..
-- Thanks