Bug 18587
| Summary: | Unable to Install due to currupted Install GUI | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <michael_crispin> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-02-28 06:22:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2000-10-07 03:49:32 UTC
I would suggest you try a text mode install - some video cards have issues with the newer X servers. Let us know if this helps. I tryed the Text mode and found my self with Bug #18586. I was able to work around it by not giving the one vfat partition that we have on this machine a mount point during the install and then just adding it to /etc/mtab when the text mode install was done. Once the Text mode install was done and I ran startx, SURPRISE!!!, I had the same problem as in the install. So apparently the X server for this Video card is not functioning properly, even though this is a supported card. I changed the Video card on the machine and all went OK. I was using the Diamond stealth with an S3 chip when I was getting the problem. I changed to a Voodo III 3000. This last card did not present any problems except the price for 14 of them. I found Bug #17991 Which is a problem Identical to the one that I am having. My problem was when I tryed the solution given there it did not seem to work for me. So I'm just wodering If there is a patch out there for this, since most of our machines have this type of video adapters installed on them. Assigning to Xconfigurator, since in text mode this is used to setup X. This seems more like a problem with the driver than with the configuration.... I think this might be the same bug as <a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?17991">17991</a>, <a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?18731">18731</a>, and <a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?22571"> 22571</a> among others -- try the Savage4 <a href="http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/7.0/gotchas-7-4.html#ss4.7">workarounds</a>. Matt Grrr. Sorry about that. Matt Grrr. Sorry about that. Matt I think this might be the same bug as <a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?17991">17991</a>, <a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?18731">18731</a>, and <a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?22571"> 22571</a> among others -- try the Savage4 <a href="http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/7.0/gotchas-7-4.html#ss4.7">workarounds</a>. Matt |