Bug 472687

1) You can always install in text mode (put "linux text" on the install command line instead of just "linux").

2) You can also put xdriver=vesa there, so instead of just "linux" it would be "linux xdriver=vesa"

Does it help?

If you are able to install, could you please attach your X server config (/etc/X11/xorg.conf), X server log (/var/log/Xorg.*.log), and /var/log/anaconda.xlog files to this bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below?

Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

Created attachment 324575 [details]
/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Created attachment 324576 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

Created attachment 324577 [details]
/var/log/anaconda.log

Created attachment 324578 [details]
/var/log/anaconda.syslog

I finished a text-based install.  Unfortunately, the text-based version of firstboot didn't ask me to create an ordinary user account, and dropped me to a text login prompt.  So, as root, I ran "startx" to log in graphically, did "yum install system-config-display" after finding that it was not installed by default, then used it to change "millions of colors" to "thousands of colors".  Then since I could now see what I was doing, I created an ordinary user account, changed the default runlevel in /etc/inittab from 3 to 5, and was in business.

I will now try to run without xorg.conf and then attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log from that below.

Created attachment 324584 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log after moving xorg.conf to xorg.conf.old - distorted video again

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Andre,

Does booting the installer with "linux xdriver=vesa" help ?

Thank you.

Yes, it does.  When I add xdriver=vesa to the options, what I get is a smaller but properly drawn version of the install screen, a little left of center and taking up roughly half the area of the screen, surrounded by black.  I'm not going to attempt an actual install, but at least at the beginning the installer is now usable.

Thank you Andre.

Could you try using the vesa driver in xorg.conf and post /var/log/Xorg.0.log of that attempt as well ?

Switching component to xorg-x11-drv-mach64 .
Setting severity to low as there is a workaround.

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Created attachment 332779 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log after replacing mach64 with vesa

After editing xorg.conf and replacing "mach64" with "vesa", and restarting X, the display is shifted about an inch to the left but otherwise normal.

I finished an install of F11 Final (A.K.A RC4) and using xdriver=vesa allowed me to get through the install and firstboot without trouble.  However, shortly after logging into X, the X server appeared to crash and I was back at the login prompt.  It was necessary to delete xorg.conf to switch back to the mach64 driver, which allowed me to log in without X crashing, but with the video corruption.  Using system-config-display, I fixed the display settings and now everything is normal.  So xdriver=vesa is not a perfect workaround.

Flipped the mach64 default depth to 16 in rawhide.

Unfortunately, my box is i686 but not PAE which means that it will probably not meet F12's hardware requirements (and the same is probably true for almost all affected hardware).  Can this change be pushed to an F11 update so one of Fedora Unity's updated images would be usable for an install?