Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 394611
anaconda produces a black screen when X11 install proceeds on X1650
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:35 EDT
Description of problem: When installing Fedora 8 x86_64 on a workstation with a Radeon X1650 Pro PCIE card, anaconda identifies the card and then the screen goes black as the X11 based installer window should appear. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the Fedora 8 x86_64 installer DVD on a workstation with a Radeon X1650 Pro PCIE graphics card. 2. Select the default GUI installation method. Actual results: After the media check, anaconda probes the video card and the screen goes black when the X11 based installation windows should appear. At this point, I can't get to a virtual console to check the status of the X11 startup. Attempts to pass the 'xserver=vesa' option on the kernel flags to the installer don't help. Anaconda doesn't honor this flag and always seems to be trying to start up X11 with the radeon driver. Expected results: The 'xdriver=vesa' kernel option should have at least allowed me to force anaconda to use the vesa driver so that the X11 based GUI installer option would be available. Additional info:
I still think (despite the reassignment of this bug to the xorg-x11-drv-ati maintainer) that the anaconda maintainer should still be involved. The question remains as to why 'xdriver=vesa' is not honored by anaconda. I'll guess I'll file that as a different bug.
Unfortunately, I have to say as a xorg bugs bugmaster, that our X server should just work without any kernel paramters magic. Have you managed to install the Fedora 8 with text-based installation? If yes, could you give us please file /var/log/anaconda.xlog from the failed graphical installation? If you managed to install, does your X work now? Could we get also as a separate uncompressed attachments both /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
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.
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information. Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.