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Description of problem: I tried the F11 beta snapshot 1 live CD on my Thinkpad T41 (Radeon Mobility 7500). When I boot with default options, the boot screen lights up in the lower left corner. The lit portion of the screen spreads until the entire screen is mostly white. The machine appears to continue to boot, and the keyboard remains responsive (at least caps-lock toggles the LED), but nothing I type appears to have any effect. In particular, ctrl-alt-del doesn't reboot, ctrl-alt-bksp doesn't restart X, and ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't give me a virtual console. Booting with the nomodeset option seems to work just fine (though, of course, without the graphical boot screen). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.1-9.fc11.i586 kernel-2.6.29.1-54.fc11.i586 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot F11 beta snapshot 1 Live CD 2. 3. Actual results: Corrupted X display Expected results: X display of boot screen Additional info:
Thanks for the bug report. Could you add /var/log/messages , /var/log/Xorg.0.log and lspci -v output as uncompressed text/plain attachments to this bug, of both the normal (KMS) and nomodeset attempts ? Full dmesg and Xorg.0.log with drm.debug=1 specified on the kernel command line in grub would also be useful, if you can ssh to the machine once it's booted. --- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Mode setting works on my Thinkpad T41 with Radeon 7500, but it has some weird graphics glitches and fonts render all screwed up sometimes.
Warren, Could you provide your full Xorg.0.log and dmesg with drm.debug=1 logs ? That would help a lot. --- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Created attachment 339939 [details] Xorg.0.log from nomodeset boot
Created attachment 339940 [details] lspci from nomodeset boot (not that I'd expect this to differ between KMS and non-KMS, would I?)
Created attachment 339941 [details] dmesg from nomodeset boot
Created attachment 339942 [details] messages from nomodeset boot
Created attachment 339943 [details] lspci -v from nomodeset boot
Created attachment 339949 [details] Xorg.0.log from modeset boot
Created attachment 339950 [details] dmesg from modeset boot
Created attachment 339951 [details] messages from modeset boot
Created attachment 339952 [details] lspci -v from modeset boot
Interesting experience getting the modeset logs. The machine is running, but the display is unusable. I attached a separate monitor to see if I could get a view on that. With the external monitor attached, I got the boot splash screen. I was able to log in, but after a short time, both X screens was corrupted. On other VCs, I could use the external display but the laptop screen remained corrupted. Will try to get the drm.debug logs soon.
Created attachment 340191 [details] Xorg.0.log with drm.debug=1
Created attachment 340192 [details] dmesg with drm.debug=1
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates in various components of the Xorg system, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their packages. For packages from updates-testing repository you can use command yum upgrade --enablerepo='*-updates-testing' Alternatively, you can also try to test whether this bug is reproducible with the upcoming Fedora 12 distribution by downloading LiveMedia of F12 Beta available at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ . By using that you get all the latest packages without need to install anything on your computer. For more information on using LiveMedia take a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD . Please, if you experience this problem on the up-to-date system, let us now in the comment for this bug, or whether the upgraded system works for you. If you won't be able to reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you. [This is a bulk message for all open Fedora Rawhide Xorg-related bugs. I'm adding myself to the CC list for each bug, so I'll see any comments you make after this and do my best to make sure every issue gets proper attention.]
Updated version to 12, as the problem persists with the F12 Live CD.
Improving summary. Matthew, how about F13? --- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers [This triage is part of collective effort done by students of University of Rijeka Department of Informatics.]
(In reply to comment #19) > Improving summary. Matthew, how about F13? Traveling this week. Will check next week.
let's keep that needinfo here
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