Description of Problem: I get a black screen when running X11 anaconda on install. I guess the problem is either X11 related or in your hardware auto-detection code. I have an MSI nForce motherboard and a Samsung SyncMaster 957DF monitor. I am using the onboard NVIDIA motherboard graphics. nForce is allegedly supported by XFree86 4.2 (or so it says here: http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html#2). How Reproducible: Just press <ENTER> to select the default graphic install, and keep going until anaconda starts up. It detects the on-board nForce graphics as a GeForce 2 MX (generic) which is pretty much accurate I guess, fails to detect my monitor, and detects my mouse more or less ok. X then starts up (to run anaconda I guess) and I get a pretty black screen. No amount of waiting of keypressing changes things. I could use the text mode install (double yuck). If you can't fix the issue with X, at least allow us to select the standard vga or vesa driver on startup. i.e. 'linux vesa' or 'linux vga'. Actual Results: A black screen. Expected Results: Well... how about anaconda displaying its stuff on my screen? :-) Additional Information: OT: Having to register an account to do a bug report is sick.
Appears to be an XFree86 issue. Mike does kudzu not have the correct PCI ids for the nvidia stuff?
Please attach the output of: lspci -vvn and lspci -vv
Created attachment 74427 [details] lspci -vvn
Created attachment 74428 [details] lspci -vv
NOTE: The lspci command was run with stock RedHat 7.2 + kernel 2.4.19.
Created attachment 74429 [details] lspci -vv (pciutils-2.1.8-23 from RH 7.2) with pci.ids snapshot from 2002-09-01 10:00:05
Please see this thread in the Xpert mailing-list: http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-October/021086.html It is the same problem I had. What worked for him worked for me too: http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-October/021155.html I guess you need to build some new RPMs...
The XFree86 archives you refer to above, are not available. nForce graphics are not supported in Red Hat Linux 8.0, however, rawhide XFree86 does support nForce now I believe. Closing as RAWHIDE.