From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: I wantet to install FC 4 on my machine, but the installer hangs. After choosing the graphical installer anaconda is starting to probe the machine. Graphic card (Matrox Milenium) was successfully dected. Monitor is shown as "unknown" ! (it is a Sony Multiscan 20 SE) When the installer tries to start the X-Server it freezes with a blue screen :-( Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot PC with CD 1 2. start graphical installer Actual Results: installer freezes with a blue screen and a dark blue curser(not blinking) on top left Expected Results: start the x-server, show the graphical installer Additional info: FC 2 is installed and running nicely on this machine. Please contact me if you need more information about the hardware.
Does booting with 'linux nofb' help?
No, not really. After probing for videcoard, monitor and mouse. It freezes at the same position. :-( This time it freezes with a black screen and a small green border. I can see a grey letter on the lower right. Only half of the letter is visible. It is problably a "B" or a "H". So far my FC2 stays installed. Any other ideas, what to do next?
Hi outthere, Do you need the xorg logfile? I haven't seen anything special in it. I can post it here if you want. Regards Suvi
The X server log file and config file are mandatorily required for all X bug reports. In addition to providing error messages and warnings, the log file provides complete details of the hardware in the system, PCI config space details, and many other details both about the hardware and various aspects of the X server starting up, probing things, etc. which are informational, and often instrumental in diagnosing problems. Always attach your X server log and config file to bug reports, if it turns out to not be useful, we can decide that, however if it is missing, then we dont have the option of looking at it, and wont investigate a bug until the files are attached, so always attaching them makes things happen faster. Thanks in advance. P.S. This looks like a duplicate of bug #161242. Please review that bug and test the workaround mentioned in it and let us know if the problem goes away. Note that you'll need to do a text mode install first, and then perform this testing in runlevel 3 after install. Hope that helps.
Created attachment 116003 [details] xorg configfile xorg configfile attached
Created attachment 116004 [details] xorg logfile from /var/log xorg logfile attached
Hi Mike, I did made the text mode installation. I have started the kernel with -s to reach singleusermode. So I can start the runlevels one by one. As you can see I have attached the logs for you. I have replaced the libvgahw.a with the one from ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/libvgahw.a It didn't help. When I start FC4 now it is ending up in a totaly black screen. After about 5 seconds the machine reboots by itself. My next step is to install the xorg package from FC3
I am stuck allready with the downgrading xorg to FC3 I took some rpms from http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/ rpm -i xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm --force didn't help. Still the black screen, but no reboot this time and [root@myPC ~]# rpm -i xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm --force warning: xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2 error: Failed dependencies: xorg-x11-xfs = 6.8.1-12 is needed by xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.i386 doesn't wont to be downgraded. What rpms do I need and how should I install them ? Please help out.
stupid me! rpm -i xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm --force rpm -i xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm --force was enough to make it work. Wow this FC4 with Gnome 2.10 is fast. Almost like a rocket comparing to FC3.
Can you give the output of: lspci -v This report is certainly a duplicate of bug #163331 Please, try xorg-x11-6.8.2-44, it should fix your problem.
no problemo: [root@PegasusTest ~]# lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4 ) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: d4000000-d7ffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d8000000-d9ffffff Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 21) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A PCI to ISA Bridge Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C P IPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at d000 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (r ev 10) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 I/O ports at d400 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (r ev 10) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 I/O ports at d800 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5 Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device f331 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at dc00 [size=256] Memory at db000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74) Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905C-TX Fast Etherlink for PC Management NIC Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at e000 [size=128] Memory at db001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04) (pro g-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G400 16Mb SGRAM Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at d5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 2.0 [root@PegasusTest ~]#
Ok, now can you upgrade to xorg-x11-6.8.2-45 with the command: $ yum --enable=development -y update xorg-x11 and tell us if it fixes your problem.
I have used yum to make a 38 Mbyte update to xorg-x11.6.8.2-45. This updated the glibx library as well. To test I made a complete restart of the pc. The Linux-Box ist booting fine and Gnome is showing up. Unfortunalty SELINUX crashes during the shutdown, but doesn't bother me. I think there are now to x11 version installed on my system. How can I check this? How can I check wich x11 version is loaded?
Enchaing the Title of this bug with Problem with Matrox Millennium G400
> How can I check wich x11 version is loaded? $ rpm -q xorg-x11
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163331 ***
#rpm -q xorg-x11 xorg-x11-6.8.2-45 ok. Great this is correct. Would be nice to release a fedora core 4.1 because the installation is quite complicated with this graphic card.
Fedora Core releases do not get respun by Red Hat, however the Fedora community, and end users are free to take Fedora and update the rpms, and roll new CD images for themselves or for others if they like. The process isn't trivial mind you, but it is doable. Join anaconda-devel-list if you require assistance creating your own updated CD/DVD images. Hope this helps.