Bug 157717 - Constat screen flickering (several times per second) on install
Summary: Constat screen flickering (several times per second) on install
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-05-14 00:42 UTC by Henri Ala-Peijari
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-05-17 00:48:22 UTC
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Description Henri Ala-Peijari 2005-05-14 00:42:12 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Description of problem:
I have tried with a FC4test3 DVD and a FC4test3 cd1 and both make my ACER 1356LCi notebook (AMD 2800+ mobile processor with ATI 9200 radeon) screen flicker constantly (several on/off cycles a second). This is not present in the initial FC boot options screen, but present after the next phase. Both cd and dvd failed the media check, but I didn't see any errors on either boot. Checksum was ok for the dvd before I burnt it. If you think my media is bad, please let me know and I'll run a md5 check and burn another cd or dvd. 

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot cd/dvd
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Actual Results:  Screen flickers after initial boot screen.

Expected Results:  No flicker.

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Comment 1 Henri Ala-Peijari 2005-05-16 11:49:04 UTC
I was able to burn another media and this time it passed the media check. Still
flickering. Maby this is not such a priority since you can still see what's
going on. 

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2005-05-16 20:42:01 UTC
Does booting with 'linux nofb' help?

Comment 3 Henri Ala-Peijari 2005-05-16 21:24:19 UTC
Yes, that solves it. Thank you.

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2005-05-17 00:48:22 UTC
Your hardware doesn't properly support the vga16fb text mode we use to support
CJK locales :(


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