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Description of problem: On a Sony Vaio VGN-s260 (Pentium-M 1.7ghz, ATI 9200m 32mb of video RAM, 1gb of system RAM) the rhgb kernel boot option prevents the X from displaying properly. The rhgb normal boot progress works properly, but once the switch to GDM happens both the internal laptop display and external monitor stay off. CPU usage is stuck at something high (the fan is going full speed). The system has not locked up completely, since the Caps Lock LED can be toggled with the Caps Lock key. I am also able to properly shut down the system at this point by pressing the power button briefly, which seems to initiate a normal shutdown. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 9beta + all updates as of Mar. 29 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot with rhgb kernel option 2. Watch the boot process... 3. ... and then the screen turns off and doesn't come back Actual results: No X/GDM shown Expected results: GDM login screen Additional info: Everything works properly with the rhgb option when the monitor is not connected during boot. After booting I can connect the monitor and use xrandr to enable it. Booting without the rhgb option allows for a successful startup with the external monitor connected.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.