From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: I'm trying to insall FC4 on my computer, but it keeps freezing the system solid at the point where x.org would start. I'm 99% certain the default radeon driver is at fault, as I had this same issue with FC3 after an update. I resolved it by installing ATI's linux drivers. ATI's drivers do no work with FC4, though. I've also had two other people report having identical problems with identical video hardware on a thread I started at linuxquestions.org. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Simply attempt to do a standard graphical installation. Actual Results: Solid system freeze where x.org would normally start. Expected Results: Installation should proceed as normal. Additional info: AMD XP 1900+ 512 megs RAM ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
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Here's the description again: Description of problem: I'm trying to insall FC4 on my computer, but it keeps freezing the system solid at the point where x.org would start. I'm 99% certain the default radeon driver is at fault, as I had this same issue with FC3 after an update. I resolved it by installing ATI's linux drivers. ATI's drivers do no work with FC4, though. I've also had two other people report having identical problems with identical video hardware on a thread I started at linuxquestions.org.
Using the OS supplied drivers exclusively, please do the following: - Run the following command: rpm -V $(rpm -qa | grep "xorg-x11") > rpm.log and attach the rpm.log file. - Attach your X server log file and config file to the bug report, as individual uncompressed file attachments. Thanks in advance.
It seems x.org is not getting to the point where it would start writing a log file. I can't find anything resembling x.org log files in my /var/log directory. Attached are the x.org conf file and the rpm command output.
Created attachment 115902 [details] rpm command output
Created attachment 115903 [details] x.org configuration file
You'll need to do a text mode installation, and after the OS is installed, run "system-config-display --reconfig" to force X to be configured from scratch. After this, configure the system to start in runlevel 3, and run "startx". Attach the X server log and config file from that session, so that we have the proper files from a failing setup.
A text mode installation is essentially what I did to get to the point I was at in comment #4. I changed the default runlevel in my inittab to 3 and tried a manual start of X using "startx". No log file was generated. The "system-config-display" command locks my system up exactly the same as if I was trying to do a graphical installation or was letting FC4 boot into runlevel 5. Basically the screen goes black and my system freezes solid (num and caps lock lights don't cycle, ctrl-alt-del does nothing).
I just got X to start by replacing "radeon" in the device section of my xorg.conf with "vesa".
Using the "radeon" driver, please review bug #161242 and test the workaround provided in that report. Provide status update as to wether the issue still occurs or not. We haven't had anyone report the issue on Radeon yet, but I'd like to be 100% sure wether there are problems on radeon caused by the bad libvgahw also. Thanks in advance. Setting status to "NEEDINFO"
I copied over my libvgahw.a file with the one provided in the link on that report and then set my xorg.conf to use the radeon driver again. It didn't do anything, I still have the exact same problem.
Can you try xorg-6.8.2-44 and tell me if it fixes your problem.
Sorry for the slow response. I updated to xorg-6.8.2-45 from the development tree. Exact same results.
Does it work better without DRI ?
Hi,i am really newbie in linux so i don´t know if i could help a lot. I have the same problem, i install FC4 from DVD (test media ok), all seems to be ok and when the packets are installed you have to reset the pc. At this moment nothing happens after resseting, i have a black screen with a white cursor at the left top. I have tried to install FC4 several times, some in an empty hard disk and others updating red hat 8.0, always the same result. The graphic card is recognized during the installation, even the graphic installation works ok but i have always the black screen after reseting. My PC is: AMD XP 1700+ 512 megs RAM ATI Radeon 7200 Regards.
Installations of Fedora Core 4 on i386 and x86_64 architecture with ATI Radeon hardware work fine locally on multiple systems. I am unable to reproduce this problem at all. The bug report does not contain sufficient information to diagnose the problem further. Recommendation: Subscribe to xorg.org mailing list, post the problem and perhaps someone can help you to troubleshoot the issue down to the root cause. Once you have determined the root cause, file a bug report in X.Org bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org and the problem should get resolved in a future version of X.Org. Setting status to "WORKSFORME"