Bug 473533

Summary:	[radeon KMS] Starting KDE on Fedora 10 without nomodeset locks up system
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	John Griffiths <fedora.jrg01>
Component:	xorg-x11-drv-ati	Assignee:	X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	10	CC:	jreznik, kevin, lorenzo, ltinkl, mcepl, rdieter, than, tuxbrewr, xgl-maint
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Description John Griffiths 2008-11-29 05:39:30 UTC

Description of problem:
Starting KDE on Fedora 10 x86_64 locks up system. Loggin in from the greeter to use KDE or from a tty after starting X and the running startkde, the system stops.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-4.1.3-2.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to log in to KDE session
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Actual results:
The login starts, then the Fedora 10 boot screen appears and the progrss bar moves for about 5 seconds and then all activity stops. There is no drive activity and trying to switch to another tty with ctl-alt-f2 f3 etc does nothing.

Expected results:
KDE should start.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Kevin Kofler 2008-11-29 05:44:43 UTC

What graphics hardware / driver?

Comment 2 John Griffiths 2008-11-29 17:04:00 UTC

Sapphire using ATI R430 Radeon X800 XL PCIe

Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2008-11-29 17:24:23 UTC

Try booting the system with the nomodeset parameter (hold down some key to get GRUB to show up, then use e twice to edit the kernel command line and add nomodeset).

Comment 4 John Griffiths 2008-11-30 03:38:24 UTC

That worked. I see from google there were some comments about that during beta, but I did not find bug when I searched. Sorry for the dup.

By the way, this happens on i386 Fedora 10, too. I switched back to the i386/i686PAE kernel because the x86_64 kept locking up and it was a pain to have to load both the x86_64 and the i386 libraries and applications. I found that Firefox 64 bit would not run some of the plugins like flash and Adobe reader plugin.Then NetBeans 6.5 would not run; I have to have that with the Sun JDK, so I bailed on 64 bit. There just does not seem to be the interest, community, or something to get it mature enough yet.

Seems the ATI driver is a bit slow to mature, too. 

But there is a lot of work in Fedora at all levels and I appreciate it greatly.

Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2008-12-05 14:21:07 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 464896 ***