Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 11617
'xconfig --card --monitor' makes me confirm what it found
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:27:05 EDT
The kickstart directive 'xconfig --card --monitor' finds my video card and then pops up a dialog box for 'OK Back'. The installation does not continue until I select 'OK' That seems broken for automated installations.
hmmm ... using the same xconfig line as you in the kickstart file below, I did not get a dialog during X configuration ... what video card were you using ...? lang en_US network --bootproto dhcp nfs --server foobar --dir /mnt/zoot/i386 keyboard "us" zerombr yes clearpart --all part / --size 2000 part swap --size 128 install mouse generic3ps/2 timezone America/New_York xconfig --card --monitor rootpw --iscrypted xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx auth --useshadow --enablemd5 lilo --location mbr --append "mem=60m" reboot %packages @Base @X Window System %post
STB Velocity 128 (nVidia Riva 128 based). I have a feeling it does not ask for confirmation if the network configuration part 'succeeded'. That is, I have a feeling that it is a symptom of using 'network --bootproto static --ip UNKNOWN --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.168.254 --nameserver 192.168.168.1' to force manual assignment of an IP address. See bug 11616 :<
WHEW. I just spent an hour trying to make this 'fail' again. I was starting to think I was REALLY losing my mind, but I got it to fail. I gave you with an incorrect 'xconfig' line in the ks.cfg. Comment it out entirely so that there is no xconfig line and the kickstart then probes and finds your card and asks you to confirm it anyway. So the bug has now turned into 'Leaving out xconfig does nothing to stop X probing and manual confirmation of what it found'. Should we close this bug and open a new one? It's gotten pretty sidetracked.
thanks for your efforts! :) I think we should close this bug out, since the xconfig --card --monitor line works properly ... as for the new issue, popping up the X dialog if you leave out the xconfig line, add the following line "skipx" in your ks file as below to allow the install to not present the X config dialog (yes, it means X won't be configured, but if you want X configured and no dialog you can add the xconfig --card --monitor line again...) install mouse generic3ps/2 timezone America/New_York #xconfig --card --monitor skipx rootpw --iscrypted xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx again, thanks for your efforts and hope this helps!