Bug 711125

Summary: Graphical installer doesn't start in alu iMac with HD2600PRO ati card
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Raffaele Candeliere <candeliere>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: airlied, jonathan, mcepl, vanmeeuwen+fedora, xgl-maint
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Description Raffaele Candeliere 2011-06-06 15:57:46 UTC
Description of problem:
The graphical installer doesn't start (falling back to text mode) apparently due to failure in initializing the graphic card.


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I haven't tried to install the whole system, just giving a look, so i can't say if tha ATI kms Xorg driver fails as well once installed.

Comment 1 Brian Lane 2011-06-06 17:08:14 UTC
Please attach the logs from /tmp/*log

Comment 2 Raffaele Candeliere 2011-06-20 08:29:38 UTC
Sorry for the late answer, but i've been busy.
Is there any method to catch the log files you're asking for, *without* installing the whole system?
You know, i need my computer for my job and i cannot afford having my pc without X. 
If i can't install F15 i should reinstall F14, wasting thus a lot of time.
Is there any way to try X without installing F15?
I suppose the issue has something to do with X rather then kernel modules because the installer is falling back in text mode, not even VESA.

Thank You

Comment 3 Brian Lane 2011-06-20 16:09:49 UTC
You can try the livecd for F15

You can grab the logs any time after it fails to start X, there is no need to do a complete install. Switch to tty2, which has a shell on it, and then scp the files over to a system where you can attach them to this bug.

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2011-06-20 16:54:08 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> You can grab the logs any time after it fails to start X, there is no need to
> do a complete install. Switch to tty2,

Either by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 or (if this doesn't work) via ssh from another computer.

> which has a shell on it, and then scp
> the files over to a system where you can attach them to this bug.

Or store them to USB flash disc.

Comment 5 Raffaele Candeliere 2011-06-20 18:01:30 UTC
Ok. I'll download a liveCD and give it a try.

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