Bug 753689 - Screen garbage, Can't get to fallback screen
Summary: Screen garbage, Can't get to fallback screen
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 745202
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-14 07:07 UTC by monobello
Modified: 2012-03-20 20:18 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-03-20 20:18:50 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Video card spec. (837.61 KB, application/pdf)
2011-11-14 07:07 UTC, monobello
no flags Details

Description monobello 2011-11-14 07:07:35 UTC
Created attachment 533443 [details]
Video card spec.

Description of problem:
I have an computer that is about 5 years old with a graphics card XFX GeForce 6200 I think it has 64MB and my monitor is 1920x1200. I'm attaching a PDF of the video card spec.

I installed Fedora 16 and the login screen is just a black box (nothing printed). If I click the mouse in the black box a white entry box shows, I enter my username (nothing gets echoed) and then enter. The black box comes back (again nothing printed), I click with the mouse and get the white entry box again and enter the password (nothing echoes) and press enter. I then enter a screen that has blue columns with blue lines of various shades of blue. I can't even get to the screen to enable fallback mode.

Every thing worked fine on Fedora 14.

Seems there should be some way to disable the fancy graphics during the install to still allow older systems to work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Happens very time.

Additional info:
Attached graphics card spec.

Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2011-11-17 22:19:40 UTC
This looks like a nouveau bug to me.

Can you please attach the information described in: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Xorg_problems ? Thanks!



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Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2012-03-20 20:18:50 UTC
This looks very much like another case of #745202, this is an NV44.



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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 745202 ***


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