Bug 466370
| Summary: | blank graphical welcome screen for DVD install | ||||||||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | John Reiser <jreiser> | ||||||||||||||
| Component: | xorg-x11-drv-ati | Assignee: | Dave Airlie <airlied> | ||||||||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||||||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | ajax, dcantrell, tcallawa, xgl-maint | ||||||||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-11-01 23:18:33 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||||||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||||||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 457945 | ||||||||||||||||
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Created attachment 319947 [details]
anaconda.log
Created attachment 319950 [details]
lspci; lspci -n; lspci -v
The problem persists with today's rawhide: anaconda-11.4.1.47 kernel-2.6.27-1.fc10.i686.rpm xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.1-10.fc10.i386.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.5.1-10.fc10.i386.rpm xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-25.fc10.i386.rpm Created attachment 320058 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log from working Fedora 9
Same hardware runs Fedora 9 just fine; here is the Xorg.0.log.
On different hardware, the R128 driver (ATI Rage 128 chipsets) works. The PCI id is 1002:4c46 (rev 02), ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x. Still other hardware also works: NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets, PCI 10de:0163 (rev a1) nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE]. Today's rawhide (Tue.Oct.14) gets the same net results (Radeon bad; R128 and NV good) but there may be some improvement. For about 1/4 of a second, I see a "graphical" screen, but scrunched into the top 1/5 of the display, and distorted as if being torn off from a pad of paper. [This is definitely not the "Starting anaconda 11.4.1.48 ..." screen which has mostly a solid blue background. However, I cannot tell if this is the remnants of the GRUB boot splssh screen, or if it is the anaconda graphical welcome screen.] Then the screen goes black, but switching virtual consoles (away and back) brings up the blinking text underline cursor on vty7. kernel-2.6.27-3.fc10.i686.rpm xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-26.fc10.i386.rpm xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.2-2.fc10.x86_64.rpm xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.5.1-10.fc10.i386.rpm Hrm, I'm not sure this is a snapshot blocker. Moving it over to F10 blocker. On today's rawhide, graphical install still gets the blank graphical welcome screen. Text install works, and X11 works on the resulting system (after "user add <name>; password <name>; telinit 5"). Why does X11 work after being installed, but not during installation itself? kernel-PAE-2.6.27.2-23.rc1.fc10.i686 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-27.fc10.i386.rpm xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.3.1-7.fc9.i386.rpm xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.2-5.fc10.i386.rpm Today's rawhide still gets the blank graphical welcome screen on Radeon during early install, upon first switch to graphical mode. Looking at /tmp/syslog (also on vt4; will be attached), I see ----- <6>pci 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 <4>mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combining ----- where the 'mtrr: type mismatch" message does _not_ appear during regular booting (non-install) when the mode switch to graphical succeeds. kernel-2.6.27.4-51.fc10.i586 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-31.fc10.i386.rpm xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.2-9.fc10.i386.rpm xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.3.1-7.fc9.i386.rpm Created attachment 321655 [details]
/tmp/syslog when installer's graphical welcome screen is blank
note "mtrr: type mismatch" message at line 739.
Created attachment 321656 [details]
/tmp/X.log when installer's graphical welcome screen is blank
This now works for me using today's rawhide (Sat.Nov. 1; .rpms have been signed for a day or two.) The installer's graphical welcome screen switches from text to graphics mode, and displays the correct graphical picture, and allows proceeding with the install. kernel-2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i586 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-38.fc10.i386 |
Created attachment 319946 [details] /tmp/X.log Description of problem: The graphical welcome screen is blank except for a blinking text cursor in the upper left corder. This is a graphical install using DVD composed by pungi from yesterday's rawhide (Wed.Oct. 9). vty1 through vty5 have text, vty6 has no video signal, vty7 is blank except for blinking underline text cursor in upper left corner. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.4.1.44 xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.1-10.fc10.i386.rpm kernel-2.6.27-0.398.rc9.fc10.i686.rpm How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot DVD, select Install or upgrade 2. 3. Actual results: Graphical welcome screen is blank except for blinking underline text cursor in upper left. Expected results: Graphical welcome screen. Additional info: Text mode (add " text" to end of boot command) gets text welcome screen (and immediate exception after OK; will be BZ'ed.)