Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 152306
Installer hangs with a blank screen when starting X
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:02 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2 Description of problem: Anaconda fails to install a proper driver for PCI-Express ATI RADEON cards which results in a blank screen when trying to start graphical part of installation. This especially happens with X600, X600Pro, X700, X800 and X850 cards. The FC3 distro got the same problem, however FC2 i386 is able to install at least the VESA driver resulting in a successful start of X. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. No special steps are needed, just boot-up the installation CD (DVD) 2. Press Enter to choose a standard installation 3. Wait until anaconda starts to detect your video, monitor and mouse Actual Results: Blank screen as soon as anaconda starts X. Expected Results: The X should start so the graphical part of installation can continue Additional info: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ ASUS A8V-E Deluxe with 1004 BIOS Seagate SATA 200 Gb Gigabyte ATI Radeon X600Pro LCD Mitsubishi DV172 (Detected correctly as MEA 172 with FC2 i386, not detected at all with FC3 x86_64 and FC4test1 x86_64)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151768 ***