From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: On an IBM Thinkpad 760XL the installer incorrectly detects the video and display panel, then proceeds to launch a horribly corrupted screen. The screen appears as many shimmering colored lines. External video will not work for X at that time. Text Terminals all work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Since this model has no bootable cdrom and cannot have a cdrom and floppy in the machine simultaeously you must create a 50MB DOS partition with cdrom drivers and copy the DOSUTILs directory to it from the CD, then disable the DOS cdrom drivers and boot with AUTOBOOT.BAT from the DOS Partition. 2.After launching AUTOBOOT.BAT skip past the CD test utility 3.At this point GUI mode provides you with a useless and corrupt display Actual Results: The display was corrupted so setup could not continue. Expected Results: We expected a GUI setup screen to continue setup as worked in 7.2 Additional info: In Redhat 7.3 the Installer worked in GUI mode but the coruuption occured after setup was done. This install has been attempted on several 760XL's with multiple sets of media. This is a very common Thinkpad and it ran RedHat 7.2 well. Please fix this.
What is the video adapter used in the 760 and also what is the native LCD panel resolution?
Trident 9385 Video @ 800x600 and 16bit As I said under RedHat 7.2 it Autodetected and worked perfectly with a default laptop install.
If you switch to VC2 (cntl-alt-f2) and run less /tmp/anaconda.log and page through it, can you see what the installer probed as the videocard and monitor?
Video Card: TGUI9660 (Generic) Monitor Type: Unable to probe. Both wrong, yet both were detected correctly under 7.2.
Looks like the hwdata is getting the wrong VGA card.
Can you post the output of lspci?
Here is the dump 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430MX - 82437MX Mob. System Ctrlr (MTSC) & 82438MX Data Path (MTDP) (rev 02) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371FB PIIX ISA [Triton I] (rev 02) 00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1130 (rev 04) 00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1130 (rev 04) 00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems TGUI 9660/938x/968x (rev d3) Steve
That's the correct card; looks like an X driver bug.
We don't support 8.0 anymore, however this problem has been solved for quite a long time in RHL 9 I believe. I'm going to close it for now as CURRENTRELEASE (Fedora Core 1), however reopen it if the problem persists in Fedora Core 1 or RHEL 3.