Bug 581412 - Xorg fails to start if "nomodeset" is added to grub kernel line
Summary: Xorg fails to start if "nomodeset" is added to grub kernel line
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-04-12 07:41 UTC by cschwangler
Modified: 2010-04-13 05:54 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-04-12 14:43:24 UTC
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Description cschwangler 2010-04-12 07:41:15 UTC 
Created attachment 405902 [details]
Compressed file with log information (details in the bug description)

Description of problem:
If I enter the bootloader configuration screen and add the 'nomodeset' kernel parameter, X fails to start and hangs.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 13 with all of the latest updates applied, Xorg Server 1.8.0-1

How reproducible:
Consistently

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add "nomodeset" to bootloader configuration
2. Boot
3.
  
Actual results:
X hangs, the system does not boot into the graphical login screen.

Expected results:
The system should boot successfully to the normal graphical login screen.

Additional info:
As attachments in the compressed file:
- Smolt profile
- dmesg
- Xorg.0.log
- messages
Comment 1 Michal Schmidt 2010-04-12 14:43:24 UTC 
This is expected. Support for user mode setting was remove from the intel driver in version 2.10.0. Only KMS should work.

(I see the Intel Test Day wiki page still lists "Basic test (no KMS)" - I'll make sure it gets removed from there.)
Comment 2 cschwangler 2010-04-13 05:54:23 UTC 
I already thought that and I am always using KMS.
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