From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: While starting a graphical installation, which is the default, the screen turns black and no installation is possible. In this situation the monitor does not show an out of range information. The graphical card gets probed as "VESA driver (generic)". The monitor gets properly probed as "Compaq S700 Color Monitor". At the point where the graphical screen is started the screen turns black. I have tried several boot options: # linux nofb # linux skippdcc # linux resolution=1024x768 (and others) # linux noapic acpi=off The text installation does run successfuly, however after a boot the console is not useable, not even the text-console => ALT+Shift+F[1-6] The monitor shows an error: "Signal out of Sync (32,5kHz 40Hz)" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start machine from CD#1 (Fedora FC2) 2.hit enter 3.skip testing the CD Actual Results: Always get a black screen. Expected Results: It should start with the graphical interface to continue the graphical installation process. At least the text-console should be available. Additional info:
I was able to remotely log into the machine (ssh) and ran the following command: Xorg -configure The resulting config file contains weird information: >>> Section "Monitor" #DisplaySize 330 250 # mm Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "CPQ" ModelName "COMPAQ S700" HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 HorizSync 876034368.0 - 0.0 (??) VertRefresh 50.0 - 0.0 (??) Option "DPMS" EndSection <<< When running the test: X -xf86config /home/fdb/xorg.conf.new it complains with: >>> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Sep 6 08:43:41 2004 (++) Using config file: "/home/fdb/xorg.conf.new" Parse error on line 51 of section Monitor in file /home/fdb/xorg.conf.new The HorizSync keyword must be followed by a list of numbers or ranges. (EE) Problem parsing the config file (EE) Error parsing the config file Fatal server error: no screens found <<< Strange thing is that the /etc/X11/xorg.conf - file seems to contain correct information for the screen: >>> Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Compaq S700 Color Monitor" DisplaySize 330 250 HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 Option "dpms" EndSection <<<
Please run the following command: system-config-display --reconfig After this, try to start the X server, and attach your X server log and config file to the bug report using the bugzilla file attachment feature. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 103626 [details] file :: /usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py This is the file the command "system-config-display --reconfig" complained about.
I ran the command, it returned this error: [mail: ~] root# system-config-display --reconfig Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 412, in ? hardware_state.merge_into(xconfig) NameError: name 'hardware_state' is not defined
Created attachment 103627 [details] TAR file containing "grub.conf" and "xorg.conf" files The files have been modified; I am not completely sure which part makes it work, however with these 2 files I got a working graphical environment (800/600).
Please attach non-compressed files so they can be viewed in a web browser. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 103816 [details] grub.conf boot file By request the text version of "grub.conf"
Created attachment 103817 [details] xorg.conf file By request the text version of xorg.conf
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of Fedora Core 3, which can be obtained from: http://fedora.redhat.com/download If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates.