Bug 109572 - Installer crashes and prompts for reboot when probing for video card
Summary: Installer crashes and prompts for reboot when probing for video card
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 107119
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kudzu
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-11-09 19:17 UTC by Gireesh K. Bhat
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:40 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-09-23 20:41:13 UTC
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Output of lspci -v (3.32 KB, text/plain)
2003-11-12 02:05 UTC, Gireesh K. Bhat
no flags Details

Description Gireesh K. Bhat 2003-11-09 19:17:37 UTC
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Description of problem:
My system is a Dell Dimension PIII 667MHz, 512MB RAM, 36GB.
The chipset is i810 and it has an onboard 4MB AGP Video card. I also
have an SiS 300 32MB PCI video card installed. The scenario is thus;
My BIOS supports disabling of the onboard video card. Anaconda does
not pick this up and still identifies the onboard card and tries to
configure it even if the onboard graphics is disabled.
With test3 I was able to install (but not start X) with the onboard
graphics card disabled  and then I could go and change the video card.
However, with FC-R1 with the onboard graphics disabled, the install
exits after probing the video card saying "X server could not be
started. No displays found. System will reboot now".

Best Regards
Gireesh

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Disable onboard video.
2. Install FC-R1
3.
    

Actual Results:  System stopped after probing the video card saying
"Could not start X server. Display not found. System will reboot now"

Expected Results:  Regular install.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-11-10 21:37:17 UTC
Does 'linux text' work?  If so, can you run '/usr/sbin/kudzu -p -c
VIDEO' post-install and post the output here?

Comment 2 Gireesh K. Bhat 2003-11-11 02:46:48 UTC
I did not use 'linux text'. I installed with the onboard video
enabled. That worked like a charm. After first boot etc. I ran System
Settings -> Display, set the video card to the PCI one and then
rebooted with onboard video disabled. Since then everything works fine.

Output of '/usr/sbin/kudzu -p -c VIDEO' is shown below.

class: VIDEO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: Card:Intel 810
desc: "Intel Corp.|82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 7125
subVendorId: 8086
subDeviceId: 4332
pciType: 1
pcibus:  0
pcidev:  1
pcifn:  0
-
class: VIDEO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|SiS300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display
Adapter"
vendorId: 1039
deviceId: 0300
subVendorId: 1039
subDeviceId: 0300
pciType: 1
pcibus:  1
pcidev:  a
pcifn:  0

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2003-11-11 16:11:11 UTC
kudzu doesn't appear to be showing either of the devices as disabled

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2003-11-11 16:19:17 UTC
What's the output of 'lspci -v'?

Comment 5 Gireesh K. Bhat 2003-11-12 02:05:03 UTC
Created attachment 95919 [details]
Output of lspci -v

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2003-11-12 02:25:40 UTC
And if you run 'kudzu -p -c video' now, it gives the same output as above?

Comment 7 Gireesh K. Bhat 2003-11-13 02:17:16 UTC
Yeah. Same output as above.

I had read some place that adding the line pci=bios,biosirq to
grub.conf  made sure that the additional video card was picked first.
I did try that but it did nothing for me.

Comment 8 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-23 20:41:13 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107119 ***


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