Bug 60898
| Summary: | Hampton beta2 install fails on S3Trio 3D systems | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Wendy Hung <wendyh> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-03-21 19:15:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This is because the hwdata package in beta2 had the trio3d listed as unsupported in xfree4 and no xfree 3 driver listed. That's already fixed in CVS. We should probably handle this case more gracefully though. Fixed in Beta3 (skipjack). |
Description of problem: On IBM xSeries 250 and 240 systems with Trio3D video, anaconda dies when starting up. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from Hampton beta2 CD 1. Actual Results: Error message appears: Running anaconda - please wait... Probing for video card: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 377, in ? videohw = videocard.VideoCardInfo(skipDDCProbe = flags.test) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/videocard.py", line 410m in __init__ server = "XF86_" + vc.getCardData()["SERVER"] KeyError: SERVER install exited abnormally ... (shutdown messages) Expected Results: Installation proceeds. Additional info: Occurs in both normal and low res mode. Text mode install doesn't even work.