Bug 29588

Summary:	Graphic Installer crash with r128
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	LENHOF <lenh_jea>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	notting, teg
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Description LENHOF 2001-02-26 19:03:19 UTC

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When launching the install graphically... the installed failed

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Insert CDROM
2.Press Enter
3.
	

Actual Results:  Reproduced by hand :

Running anaconda - please wait...
Probing for mouse type...
Waiting for X server to start... log located in /tmp/X.log
.. X server started successfully
Gdk-ERROR **: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :1
install exited abnormally
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
disabling swap...
unmounting filesystems.../proc/bus/usb


Expected Results:  Launching graphical install


tried also with lowres...with vga=773, vga=775,... 

Works great in text mode install

The same install worked with Fisher and Guinness

Comment 1 LENHOF 2001-02-27 08:34:59 UTC

I have exactly the same problem with a laptop at work :
Dell Latitude CPx J650GT
with ATI M1 8Mo
ESS Maestro3

Regards
Jean-Yves

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2001-03-01 20:35:11 UTC

I think this is related to the busmastering issue on Dell laptops.
Enabling busmastering with 'setpci' fixes this if I'm correct, however
the commands are cryptic.. lemme see if I can find them..

Taken from bug #29966 - try this before running XFree..
Let me know if it fixes the problem.

dev=01:00.0   # change as appropriate
echo Enabling bus mastering on device $dev
setpci -s $dev 4.w=$(printf %x $((0x$(setpci -s $dev 4.w)|4)))
dev=00:00.0
echo Enabling bus mastering on host bridge $dev
setpci -s $dev 4.w=$(printf %x $((0x$(setpci -s $dev 4.w)|4)))

Comment 3 LENHOF 2001-03-01 22:08:33 UTC

Hum... 

That will not correct the problem... because I can run Guinness, Fisher,
Wolverine on this laptop... But I can only install graphically it with Guinness
or Fisher... and I install it in text mode for Wolverine... 

But after the installation I could run Xfree without any kind of problem 
(I just save my XF86Config-4 on a floppy because If I remember well the
XFConfigurator does'nt recognize very well my screen (Hor 30-60....and so on))

I just precise this problem is during the install only....

I you want I could make some try at home if you put some new files on an ftp...
for my personnal desktop... and after It will work i will try again with the laptop.

Regards
Jean-Yves

Comment 4 Glen Foster 2001-03-02 18:06:16 UTC

Our installer team-lead thinks we should really fix this before next release.

Comment 5 Preston Brown 2001-03-05 05:44:30 UTC

I will test on my Dell laptop tomorrow.

Comment 6 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-03-05 16:01:24 UTC

Hmm... could this be related to the recent kernel fix for R128?

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2001-03-05 16:03:15 UTC

No. The installer doesn't use DRI.

Comment 8 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-03-05 20:19:48 UTC

The first bug works here now (r128)... for the second issue (laptop), please
open a separate bug.