Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 157859
Installation crashes on my PowerBook G4
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:06 EST
Description of problem: If i boot from the DVD, then linux starts normaly. After anaconda has check the system components it want to start the X-server. Now nothing happens. I can not switch to a console. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Try to install Fedora 4 Test 3 from a DVD on a PowerBook G4. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: My system: PowerBook G4 - 1,5 GHz PowerPC 1,25 GB RAM 80 MB HD ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 - 64 MB RAM
Do a text mode installation, then reconfigure the X server with: system-config-display --reconfig Does the X server start correctly now? If the server doesn't start, file a bug report in X.Org bugzilla in "xorg" component against PPC platform at http://bugs.freedesktop.org and attach your X server log and config file to the X.Org bug report. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates.
Setting status to "NEEDINFO", awaiting update, and upstream bug URL.
After calling: system-config-display --reconfig the same behavior happens. The X.Org bugzilla url is: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3318 (In reply to comment #1) > Do a text mode installation, then reconfigure the X server with: > > system-config-display --reconfig > > Does the X server start correctly now? > > If the server doesn't start, file a bug report in X.Org bugzilla > in "xorg" component against PPC platform at http://bugs.freedesktop.org > and attach your X server log and config file to the X.Org bug report. > > Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new > bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the > centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that > become available for consideration in future updates.
Ok thanks. Adding bug to our "UPSTREAM" tracker. Please make any further comments, etc. in the X.org bug, and we'll track it there.
*** Bug 157965 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Finally found some time to investigate this a little bit. My system: Recent Apple Powerbook G4 15" (Powerbook5,6) with Mobility Radeon 9600 M10 The problem seems to be caused by a fedora patch. Namely this one: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/xorg-x11/devel/xorg-x11-6.8.1-ati-radeon-dynamic-clocks-fix-2.patch Tried the latest development package (release 38) with the same results as before. After rebuilding the package with exclusion of the patch mentioned above everything works fine. Perhaps this bug should be reopened because this patch is not part of recent xorg sources. Added the same comment to X.Org bug report.