From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: When the computer boot there are no problems with the graphics. The GRUB screen appears OK and the first lines of messages during linux-startup is also OK. Just when the FC graphic boot screen appears the graphics get messed up - and the graphics stay messed up no matter what i do. I was also unable to use the graphic installation as I had the same problems. My graphic adaptor is a Matrox Millenium G550, the processor Athlon XP 3200+, and the motherboard an Asus A7N8X. I have run installations of both FC1 and FC2 on this machine without any problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.2-31 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot the machine 2. 3. Additional info:
Does bug #153729 adequately describe the problem? Please attach your X server config file and log file.
Also, have a look at bug #161242 which is a new master bug I've made to track the problem which I think might be the root cause of the issue reported here and elsewhere in bugzilla. Thanks in advance.
For those experiencing issues of this nature, I have uploaded the libvgahw.a X server module from the current FC3 errata release to my ftp space: ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/libvgahw.a This should make it easier for some people to test out the module hopefully, and also have a temporary workaround. Please provide feedback on the results of your testing ASAP. Setting status to "NEEDINFO"
I did have an intense green border and otherwise pale green terminals in ctrl/alt/1-6 and replaceing libvgahw with the FC3 version removed the green stuff but the text was still unreadable. The same appearance as in the graphic mode (ctrl/alt/7) was observed - namely that the display is divided in 1 cm vertical sections and that some of these sections are copies of the section next to the neighbouring section (do you get what I mean??) Notice that the problem appeared already under graphical installation. I had to use text installation which showed none of the problems. As I was only able to work on the computer by ssh access from another computer I tried to downgrade X to xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.13 which solved all problems. I did not make a copy of the X server config and log files and don't have the time right now to upgrade X to the FC4 version to get that done. I think there are two issues both the green border thing and something else - just like in bug 153729.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161242 ***