Description of problem: I tagged this as xorg-x11 ... not sure that is correct ... it is some type of video driver problem. Graphical installation proceeds fine. System seems to hang when trying to display graphical login or when trying to switch from graphical mode back to text mode (during system shutdown). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL ES 4 update 2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL4 ES update 2 on Dell Dimension 4700 with built-in Intel 915 video on the motherboard, with 8 Mb of built-in ram dedicated to the video subsystem. 2. Observe that the graphical installation proceeds fine, without any problems 3. Go through first-boot ... 4. Observe that the video card is correctly identified as Intel 915 5. Observe that the video monitor is UNKNOWN 6. Leave settings at 800x600, or select correct monitor and pick another resolution 7. At the end of first-boot stuff, observe that graphical login screen never appears, regardless of how long you wait. 8. power off system 9. restart 10. observe that graphical login screen never appears 11. power off system 12. restart in single user mode 13. init 3 14. login 16. Observe that graphical mode works OK 16. Actions -> Logout -> Shutdown 17. Observe that screen goes blank and system hangs, never shutting down 18. power off system. 19. restart in single user mode 20. init 5 21. observe that graphical login appears 22. log in successfully 23. Actions -> Logout -> Shutdown 24. Observe that screen goes blank and system hangs, never shutting down Actual results: System hangs with video driver problem. Expected results: Video system works OK Additional info: This motherboard has PCI Express, no AGP. I do not have a PCI express video card. I plugged in an old Matrox Millennium PCI video card. Reinstalled rhel4u2 and everything worked fine. I am successfully running Fedora Core 4 on this hardware using the built-in Intel 915 video. Have not had any problems at all. And I think that I ran Fedora Core 3 on this hardware too.
What is your xorg-x11 version on rhel4u2?
This was an install right off the the CDs. No updates were run. 'rpm-qa' | grep xorg' reports xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20
It is curious, because xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20 is very close to the FC4 updated version xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2. Unless you use a non-updated version of xorg-x11 under FC4?
> It is curious, because xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20 is very close to the FC4 > updated version xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2. While it is true that FC4 and RHEL4 xorg packaging are fairly similar, they are maintained separately from each other and have diverged a fair bit if you compare the latest RHEL4 xorg-x11 to the latest FC4 one. The RHEL kernel is also very different from the FC4 one, and in the case of lockups, shouldn't be ruled out.
Please update to RHEL4 U3, and update the report to indicate if this problem still exists in U3 with the i8xx hardware. If the problem does still exist, please run: system-config-display --reconfig Start up the X server, and please attach the X server log file and config file from the attempt as individual uncompressed bugzilla file attachments using the link below.
Works fine with RHEL 4 Update 3 I consider this closed ... but will let you officially close it.
Ok, thanks for the quick update! Setting status to "ERRATA"