Description of problem: When doing graphical installs on three different servers with Matrox g200e embedded video controllers, the bottom 1/5th of the screen is garbled, scrambled and unviewable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F7 base media install from Fedora-7-KDE-Live-i686.iso (both running from Live CD and after attempting to install to the HDD). How reproducible: 100% reproducible Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the Live CD - doesn't matter which of the 3 choices are choosen from initial screen. 2. The bottom of the screen will be garbled. 3. Click on the install icon on the desktop to install to the HDD. 4. The bottom 1/3 of the installation boxes are unviewable. Actual results: Only 4/5th's of the screen are viewable. Expected results: The entire screen should be viewable so long as display constraints are met. Additional info: I have installed a DVI video card in a PCI slot and I'm able to do a DVI-to-DVI installation from the KDE Live CD. However, after a reboot, the system reboots into run level 3. StartX fails immediately. On the third attempt of "StartX", the system reports that my x11.conf file may be corrupt and it will repair with a new x11.conf file. Card 0 fails and Card 1 is then configured correctly. The DVI connection will work at this point until a reboot occurs and the same problem reappears. I can take screen captures if necessary.
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 156755 [details] The xorg.conf file from a system with Fedora Installed
Created attachment 156756 [details] The Xorg.0.log file from a system with Fedora Installed
Created attachment 156757 [details] The lspci -vv output file from the system with Fedora Installed
Created attachment 156758 [details] The Xorg.0.log file after the xorg.conf file has been deleted
The system's embedded video cannot be disabled in ROM (RBSU) on this server so there are 2 video's seen in the lspci file I attached. Deleting the xorg.conf file and allowing a fresh config to generate solves the problem for me. Thanks, Brett.
I am not sure that I understand your comment 6 in view of the attachment 156758 [details] -- the log looks like the initialization of X failed, but comment 6 seems to indicate that you are all set just with removing config file. Could you elaborate a little bit, please?
Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.
Anyway, no response from reporter, so I will go with what's more convenient for me. Closing per comment 6 as NOTABUG.