Bug 49146 - installer crash with old video card
Summary: installer crash with old video card
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-07-15 18:32 UTC by Michael Redinger
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:34 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-07-16 19:33:20 UTC
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Description Michael Redinger 2001-07-15 18:32:20 UTC
Description of Problem:

I've an old server with a CL-GD5420 video card (512 KB video ram -
it's really old ...) (an onboard chip in a Compaq Proliant 1500 server). anaconda doesn't seem to find the card and therefore fails, leaving a nice traceback.
This happens in both GUI and TUI install modes.


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GUI install:

Probing for video card:
Probing for mouse typ0e:

Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/lib/anaconda", line 397, in ?
   mousehw)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/.xserver.py", lin 87 in startX
   probedServer = video.primaryCard().getXServer()
AttributeError: 'None' object has no attribute 'getXServer'




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TUI install (after package selection):

Traceback (innermost last):
   File "/usr/lib/anaconda", line 561 in ?
      intf.run(id, dispatch)
   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 365 in run
      rc = apply(win, (self.screen, ) + args)
   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/xconfig.text.py", line 506, in __call__
      self.xconfig.filterModesbyMemory()
   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/xf86config.py", line 742, in fiterModesByMemory
      self.modes = self.availableModes()
   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/xf86config.py", line 700, in availableModes
      vidRam = self.video.primaryCard().getVideoRam()
Attribute Error: 'None' object has no attribute 'getVideoRam'





How Reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get yourself some old video cards ... ;)


Actual Results:
installer crashes

Expected Results:
well, a server doesn't need a nice GUI. So why bother?
GUI installation should fall back to TUI installation.

Additional Information:
It's hard to write down those tracebacks if saving them doesn't work ... ;))

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-07-16 15:17:44 UTC
Known issue we're working on for beta 3.

Comment 2 Glen Foster 2001-07-16 18:53:21 UTC
This defect considered MUST-FIX for Fairfax gold-release.

Comment 3 Matt Wilson 2001-07-19 16:23:37 UTC
should be fixed in updates disk posted to testers-list



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