Description of problem: I've got an imac 333 (revision 2.2 with the newworld rom, according to cpuinfo) with 320mb ram. Any attemt to start X on this box (anaconda, rhgb, runlevel 5) hangs the box with a underscore cursor in the upper left. At the time X tries to start, my ssh console into the box also becomes unresponsive. results of lspci from cd install on tty 2 00:00.0 Host bridge: Morotola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40) 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Paddington Mac I/O 00:12.0 VGA compatable controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) 00:14.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10) Also after powering off the box, and back on, an inspection of /var/log/messages shows no specific information informaiton about why. Here's some snippits from the xorg.conf Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 8 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection I've tried changing the depth setting from 8 to 32, which then changes the behavior of the hang to a blank screen instead of an underscore in the upper left. On YDL4, things dont work right with it set to 16, but it doesn't hang. Also, here's the monitor section Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "iMac" DisplaySize 270 200 HorizSync 60.0 - 60.0 VertRefresh 75.0 - 117.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Any ideas to get X to start on this box would be appreciated, but ultimately getting this fixed for the release would be ideal :) It may be worthwile to note that this box does work correctly with YDL4.0 How reproducible: Every Time Steps to Reproduce: 1. start X on an imac 333 2. hang
Here's some more info from the box: ---------- lspci -v -v -s 00:12.0 00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size 08 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22 Region 0: Memory at 0000000081000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: I/O ports at 0c00 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at 0000000080881000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] ---------- X -scanpci --verbose Probing for PCI devices (Bus:Device:Function) (0:0:0) Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (0:16:0) Apple Computer Inc. Paddington Mac I/O (0:18:0) ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (0:20:0) unknown card (0x1045/0xc861) using a OPTi Inc. 82C861
Aha I've got it. The device section is like so: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "fbdev" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "Framebuffer driver (generic)" EndSection It's not trying to use the ati driver. Changing it to use the ATI driver and changing the resolution and color depth to 1024x768 and 24bit color and it starts
We should be configuring X to do this automatically as of FC6 test3 and later. Please verify that this is still an issue there, and reopen if so.
(In reply to comment #2) > Aha I've got it. The device section is like so: > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "fbdev" > VendorName "Videocard vendor" > BoardName "Framebuffer driver (generic)" > EndSection > It's not trying to use the ati driver. > Changing it to use the ATI driver and changing the resolution and color depth > to 1024x768 and 24bit color and it starts Clinton, Please help, my hd crashed, so I tried installing Fedora, but it Anaconda hangs at Xserver start. Please, help me install Fedora. Arnold (arnold_pena)
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Still a problem on Fedora 9
Adding the following to xorg.conf was sufficient to fix the problem Add the following to Section "Screen" Monitor "Monitor0" Then add this chunk of monitor information to the end of the file: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Apple" ModelName "iMac Rev.D 333" HorizSync 60 VertRefresh 70-121 ModeLine "1024x768" 77.52 1024 1061 1114 1292 768 773 775 804 ModeLine "800x600" 60.60 800 820 900 1009 600 601 627 628 ModeLine "640x480" 48.12 640 640 726 802 480 481 508 510 Option "DPMS" EndSection Also, my initial report that it was hanging the box was erroneous. It doesn't hang the box, but what I believe is the graphical output being out of sync makes the imac's powerlight change from green to red.
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