From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 Description of problem: Text only install, monitor not recognised, successfull installation. Post-install reboot, installer hangs/display corrupts after 'configuring kernel parameters' boot section. Removed 'rhgb' from vmlinuz, bootup reaches 'starting atd....', display corrupts/installer hangs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.9-1.667 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Text only install (GUI crashes/hangs at post hardware probing) 2.Post-install reboot 3. Actual Results: Installer hangs/crashes after 'configuring kernel parameters' boot section. Expected Results: Normal bootup to post-install config/Fedora start screen Additional info: Monitor was not recognised, added manufacturers specs for HS and VR, added "noaccel" option under device, added "1024x768" with default 24 color/depth. Able to access FC3 command shell via rescue disk. Ran 'system-config-display', result was black screen/system crash, occurred with system defaults and amended /xorg.conf as above. Ran 'X -probeonly' and was given this: ------ (ww) * INVALID MEMORY ALLOCATION * b: 0xe4000004d0000000 e: 0xe4000004dfffffff correcting (ee) Sparse io range (base: 0x2a95c7d406 mask: 0xb1d790) doesnt satisfy (base+mask =mask) System specs: Mitsubishi DiamondPro750sb AMD64 3200+ GA-K8NF-9 MOBO Sparkle 6600 256mb PCIe 1Gb RAM 80Gb HDD
FC3 i386 version worked fine. MOBO BIOS beta ver F3j
Note: When filing bug reports, hit ENTER at the end of each line after 70 characters. This bug report is virtually unreadable. >Description of problem: >Text only install, monitor not recognised Monitor autodetection is x86 specific and does not work on any other architecture, so this is expected. > Sparkle 6600 256mb PCIe If that's a GeForce 6600, they're unsupported in FC3 out of the box. Might work with latest updates for FC3. FC4's current xorg-x11 has support for it, but it is buggy. Using "XaaNoScreenToScreenCopy" works around the problem however, and might work on FC3+updates also. Attach X server log and config file, and output of "rpm -q xorg-x11" TIA
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