Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 184015
Need option to choose driver for graphical install
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:26 EST
Description of problem: From what I can tell, there are kernel command-line options in the installer to choose video resolution, etc, but there seems to be no way at all to manually choose the X video driver used by the graphical installer (and the subsequent installed system). I cannot perform a GUI install currently because anaconda chooses a broken driver for my video card; however, if I could manually tell anaconda to use the vesa driver instead, I would be able to use the graphical installer. This wouldn't be as much of an issue except that there is significant functionality in the graphical installer (manually configuring LVM groups, etc) which simply does not exist in the text-mode one, which I would like to use but can't. (If there is, in fact, already an option to do this, then please consider this a request for some better documentation of available anaconda options, as I can't find anything anywhere that says this is possible.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Added a change so that you can boot with 'linux vesa' and get the vesa driver instead of what gets probed. Given the drivers we have, this is really the only reasonable alternative and so a little saner than a generic "choose your own driver" type thing.