From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: When the installer tries to use GUI and detect the video card, it reverts to text mode. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot up with CD 2.Hit enter key upon cd detection/install 3.Wait for video card to be detected to go to GUI install Actual Results: The installer detects my I810 motherboard w/onboard video, but it doesn't detect the PCI video card, voodoo3, which is the default card, and set in BIOS. Expected Results: The installer should detect the default video card and monitor, even if it's PCI and there is an onboard video with no monitor connected. Additional info: The BIOS is set with the PCI video card as default and the monitor is connected.
This is a known issue we are not addressing this release.
This is only important in that rhpl gives us the primary card in use so we can write out a XF86Config that will work. First-boot will handle X configuration.
Closing bug as this is detected during firstboot instead of during install. So therefore, doesnt' really matter what Anaconda finds, correct?
I'm not sure exactly how any of our config tools handle systems with multiple video cards. In the abscense of multihead configuration, what should occur IMHO, is the config tool should autodetect all video hardware, and either configure the one card which is identified as "primary" or it should pop up a list of non-configured video hardware and let the user choose what card will be configured. I think both options should be available, as there are some systems out there that even when the video card is disabled via jumper, or via CMOS, it still shows up at runtime. Other systems have the ability to set the primary card, but for one reason or another it doesn't actually work. No idea how common the problem systems are, but then we're only likely to hear about the problem ones, so it's impossible to tell. ;o) I'm not sure what component this fits best under, but probably redhat-config-xfree86.
I made some changes in rhpl to handle the multiple video card case. It worked fine on Tammy's Dell Dimension 4500S, which has an onboard i180 and an add-on Radeon 7500. So, I believe that this behavior is fixed for RHL 9. Please reopen if you are still having problems with RHL 9.