Description of problem: An attempt to boot into installation in a graphics mode ends up with a black screen and non-responsive keyboard the moment when X server is supposed to be started. RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] graphics card. Is this a grotty X server (I do not recall that beeing so bad ever) or this is something anaconda specific? Going into a rescue mode or starting an installation in a text mode looks like working OK. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 20080402 boot images How reproducible: always
X was entirely hosed in today's rawhide and was discussed as such on multiple lists on multiple occasoins. Will be fixed tomorrow.
AFAIK rawhide X is no longer hosed. It surely works on the same hardware I tried this test. I did the same with 20080406 images (anaconda identifies itself as 11.4.0.65) and results were as described in the original report. A blank screen and apparently a dead keyboard (or maybe video crashed to such extent that even text consoles are black). A machine does respond to pings but I have no way to log on it and look around.
The X fix didn't help the installer case (X was still SEGV'ing). We've put in a brute force hack to work around it that should be in today's rawhide. Even though it makes me cringe a bit.
The same test with 20080418 images, at least on my hardware, passed. X is definitely not in a hurry to start but eventually it does that. Should this be considered closed or somewhat different graphics card will still cause failures?