Bug 804194

Created attachment 570687 [details]
Xorg log

Created attachment 570688 [details]
lspci -nnvvxxx

Xorg server in F17 doesn't support xaa anymore and openchrome default is still xaa. You can probably get the driver going by using a minimal X conf to enable exa, although compositing is buggy and would need to be disabled.
Something like that in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/openchrome.conf should do :
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "openchrome"
        Option      "AccelMethod" "exa"
        Option      "ExaNoComposite"
EndSection

I'll look into fixing that properly to run without an X conf.
Thanks for the report.

xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.905-4.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.905-4.fc17

Package xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.905-4.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.905-4.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-4200/xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.905-4.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Thank you for the fix. Once it reaches the next F17 Beta compose I'll test and report here.

I did a F17 text install and the problem remains after installing xorg-x11-drv-openchrome from updates-testing (0.2.905-4.fc17). See attached log.

Created attachment 572258 [details]
Xorg log (take 2)

Ok, I see the issue. the xaa module is loaded even when not needed. I have a patch, but no machine in an usable state to test, so I'll do a scratch build and ask you to test it. I'll post a link soon. Sorry for the inconvenience, I should have updated at least one of my VIA machines earlier in the release cycle.

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3926199

Not sure this is enough, I'm discussing the issue upstream, but it worth a try.

Still no video with 0.2.905-5.fc17, just a blank screen. And it completely blocks keyboard input (can't switch ttys). Need SSH access to manage the machine. New log attached.

I did a new install (VNC this time) with XFCE as DE and changed the "runlevel":

ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target

Do I need create /etc/sysconfig/desktop with "DISPLAYMANAGER=GNOME"?

Created attachment 572441 [details]
Xorg log (take 3)

Just confirming I did a new default "Desktop" install (GNOME) and got the same blank screen.

Package xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.905-5.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.905-5.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-4200/xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.905-5.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Thanks Xavier! Version 0.2.905-5.fc17 works. I have some display corruption in Gnome Shell with fullscreen windows, but probably isn't xorg-x11-drv-openchrome problem.

Xavier can you push this to stable so hopefully will be a next F17 Beta RC and VIA users will have a working Anaconda GUI in F17 Beta?

The package needs to stay in testing 3 days before I can push it to stable, but I will definitely push it as soon as I can.

How's the screen corruption issue going ? Did you give a try at another desktop manager that doesn't need full 3D support, like KDE, xfce, lxde, etc... ?

Yes. Gnome Fallback mode and KDE works without problem (I did just a quick test, opening some programs, changing windows, etc).

Unfortunately the P4M900 machine is gone (was from a friend). I have now a P4M800. With this one no corruptions yes (but it's very slow in Shell...).

marcos: for the corruption, check you have mesa -9. There was a -7 build which was known to have issues.

Discussed at 2012-03-30 NTH review meeting. Accepted as NTH as this is obviously more or less a showstopper for VIA hardware and can't be fixed fully with an update (live boot and graphical install would still be affected).



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Dave: are there other drivers which need fixing for this? There was talk in the review meeting of nv being affected.



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Thanks Xavier, Adam. Fixed in F17-Beta-RC3.

xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.905-5.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.