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Bug 457763 - System shows random ascii art instead of login screen (drm-modesetting?)
Summary: System shows random ascii art instead of login screen (drm-modesetting?)
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-08-04 14:49 UTC by Hans de Goede
Modified: 2008-08-05 20:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-08-05 20:00:19 UTC
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Description Hans de Goede 2008-08-04 14:49:15 UTC 
Description of problem:
When booting kernel-2.6.27-0.186.rc0.git15.fc10.x86_64 I get a garbled ascii display instead of gdm when booting without rhgb on the cmdline (I get the same garbled ascii with rhgb on the cmdline).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.27-0.186.rc0.git15.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot amd64 system with ati X1950pro and kernel-2.6.27-0.186.rc0.git15.fc10.x86_64
  
Actual results:
garbled ascii

Expected results:
gdm

Additional info:
The ascii always show the same "pattern"
Comment 1 Hans de Goede 2008-08-04 22:39:35 UTC 
Note, the latest rawhide kernel (from today) does work when I remove rhgb from the cmdline, I haven't tried yet with rhgb, I'll do that tomorrow and if that works too, I'll close this.
Comment 2 Paul W. Frields 2008-08-05 12:25:20 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Note, the latest rawhide kernel (from today) does work when I remove rhgb from
> the cmdline, I haven't tried yet with rhgb, I'll do that tomorrow and if that
> works too, I'll close this.

Any luck with this Hans?
Comment 3 Hans de Goede 2008-08-05 20:00:19 UTC 
Yes and no,

Yes: the system no boots fine with rhgb parameter present on the kernel cmdline
No: plymouth still runs in ascii mode

As the no is not what this bug was about, I'm going to close this.
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