From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux) Description of problem: On my Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop with external monitor, graphical install fails if the external monitor is enabled. Anaconda detects my video card (NVidia GeForce 2 Go) and external monitor (Dell Ultrascan P991, a rebranded trinitron) correctly. I am guessing that it is maybe trying to use the X settings for the lcd on the external montior. I can toggle the display from external to lcd and back with a key on the keyboard. When I enable the lcd, I get static there as well. If I switch to a virtual console on the lcd, it is garbled but recognizable as text. If I then switch back into X, it is fine. If I switch back to the console again, I no longer get garbled text, but moving static instead. Switching the external monitor back on at any point results in an on-screen display reporting "out of scan range" There are no problems if I install with the external monitor turned off the whole time. This bug prevents install from proceeding, and would prevent a user who doesn't know how to kill X from performing a soft reboot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do graphical install with external monitor turned on Actual Results: Static on external monitor Additional info: I haven't been able to retrieve the X logs. Maybe I can if I switch to the lcd and kill X and then hit control-s during shutdown, but I haven't tried that yet.
Can you attach the /tmp/XF86Config and /tmp/anaconda.log from having both the external monitor attached and not? You shouldn't have to actually complete the install, just get to where X has started and you can access tty2.
Created attachment 95891 [details] logfiles for external and builtin cases I'm uploading a zipped tarball with subdirectories called crt and lcd. Each contains X.log, XF86Config.test, and anaconda.log. Crt is the external monitor (broken X config) and lcd is the builtin display (working). Let me know if you want these files uploaded some other way.
I diffed the crt and lcd directories and the only difference is a timestamp in X.log.
LCD is without the external monitor attached/powered on? I don't see how it could possibly probe a CRT without it actually being there...
You're right, I probably just had it toggled off from the laptop keyboard. This causes the external monitor to go to sleep, but it might still be probed. When I get a chance I'll try it with the monitor powered off.
I noticed a similar but slightly different problem on my FC2-test1 installation. The machine in question has an onboard SiS video card, and an addition NVidia card installed. The NVidia is set as the primary video and is the only one used ( always had issues with the SiS in the past ). Anaconda detected the SiS card, and went on to use this for the X11 install which failed, doing a text install worked, but X11 was setup for XF86Config, and thus failed again. Manually editing the XF86Config for nvidia use allowed me to actually use the machine thou. If this is different, should I open another issue for it? Mark
This is all done differently in our current code, so I'm going to hope that it's no longer a problem. If you continue to experience this in Fedora Core 3, please reopen or file a new report with details of what you see there.