Bug 80866
| Summary: | bottom halve of screen progressively unreadable during graphical install | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Need Real Name <awol> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | phoebe | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-03-12 16:10:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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try booting with "linux nofb". Booting with 'linux nofb' indeed solves the problem. The screen is now uniformly readable. Matt, you seem to have a hunch about what's going on here. This is essentially a hardware bug, I believe. It is possible that it's an XFree86 driver bug, but all the other ATI hardware is working without problems. I believe that booting with 'nofb' is going to have to be the solution for now. We no longer use fb and things seem much better overall. but we still use vga16fb |
Description of problem: During the graphical installation of phoebe on a Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop with the ATI 3D RAGE LT Pro video card the bottom halve of the screen was badly rendered. Text became progressively difficult to read going down the screen. The two bottom lines were practically unreadable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always (tried 3 times) Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: