| Summary: | Can't ask installer to use fb for graphical installation | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Alexandre Oliva <aoliva> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | roswell | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-08-03 15:52:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | ||
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Description
Alexandre Oliva
2001-08-02 20:04:50 UTC
How did you boot into the installer? If you are in frame buffer mode when stage2 of the installer runs then it will attempt to use the XF86_FBDev server first. Boot into the installer and goto VC2 and cat /proc/cmdline and confirm there is a vga=xxx appended. It seems that general.msg needs to be updated, then, informing the user about the need for passing the vga mode to use the fb and avoid video card auto detection. I hadn't realized I had to explicitly pass the vga mode now, and just assumed it was totally out-of-date, given that it no longer used the frame buffer mode. You should not have to pass the vga=xxx, look at the syslinux.cfg file and see if the boot target you chose has vga=xxx. I was asking for you to see if it got passed. I have no problem having it work out of the box so there must be something different about your setup that we need to identify so we can fix the code. Ok, you caught me cheating again :-) I had extracted vmlinuz and initrd.img from the bootnet.img floppy disk, and added them as a boot option in lilo, because I had left the floppy drive of the laptop at home. I had failed to add the default `linux' options from syslinux.cfg to the boot options, though, so vga=788 hadn't been passed. The only thing I have to say in my defense is that, in previous versions of Red Hat Linux, the procedure I described above worked on other machines, without passing any arguments to the install kernel. Perhaps it was not using the frame buffer device then, and I hadn't noticed? Additional datapoint Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 14:39:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovich@nvidia.com> To: XFree86 devel list <devel@xfree86.org> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Nvidia status document: On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Thomas Witzel wrote: > What means GeForce2 Go is not supported ? XFree runs on mine... > Some people have said the Toshiba laptops work with the "nv" driver. I've never seen it work, and frankly, I don't see how it can. It certainly doesn't work on the one we have here. Must be some sort of bios miracle you are seeing. The "nv" driver definitely does not support the GeForce2 Go in terms of having code required to make it work for the general case. Mark. |