Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 14457
[laptop - text install] No Xconfiguration done
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:56 EDT
Doing a textinstall on my laptop (chaplett 5032 / p133) seems to skip the Xconfiguration. After creating the bootdisk the HD rattles a bit and then the setup is done. This is very likely related to Xconfigurator crashing also when run after the install as root. I'll add a comment with the bugzilla id of that bug once entered. Also kudzu has serious trouble on this machine see bug 14455 and bug 14456
Also see Xconfigurator segfaults: bug 14458
The Xconfigurator segfaults bug (bug 14458) has been fixed, by adding the option -noddcprobe, if the installer now would be updated to pass this to Xconfigurator when it is run with the noprobe option, then I concider this fixed.
Is this fixed in beta 5?
I'm currently checking, the laptop only does nfs install, and this takes about 3 hours so I'll lett you know then.
Nope, I've started the installer with: linux noprobe On the syslinux prompt, I guess this still work or has this option been removed from the later beta's? Anyways with this option the Xconfiguration is still skipped.
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Release-Candidate #1
This cannot be fixed at this time - the installer should allow you to skip X configuration at install time and then you can run Xconfigurator with the special command line option once your system is installed.
First of all, the screen goes completly black, so this is a cannot complete install bug, not everyone has a spare monitor handy to plug in, and other systems are bound to be bitten by this too. The help screens on the bootdisks clearly state that you can use expert mode to install on buggy hardware, and that in this case no autoprobing will be done. I would expect noprobe todo a normal install, without any probing as in expert mode. That is what I plea for, and what afaik 6.1 used todo. But letts say I use expert mode, then I presume kudzu won't do dcc probing and Xconfigurator will be run with --nodccprobe? If not I concider that a bug, and I strongly urge for a noprobe option doing the noprobing effect of expert without all the other questions I don't want to answer and have no need for. If this is not feasible for this release, then fix this in expert mode, and defer the noprobe RFE.
I believe we have corrected the display going blank problem in your other bug report, so this one should be fixed as well.