Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 80401
Anaconda does not work in GUI mode
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:49:17 EDT
Description of problem: The Phoebe installer does not work in GUI mode on my Dell Inspiron 4000. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.0.92-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to install in GUI mode 2. Watch it try, then fail Actual results: Kicks into TUI, which is obviously correct, but suboptimal. Expected results: Pretty GUI install screens, just like 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 did (and every beta in between) Additional info: redhat-config-xfree86 also was unable to configure valid settings for this laptop, but it has never been able to get it right (it failed in 8.0 even though anaconda succeeded and wrote out a working XFree86 config file).
Does it work if you boot with 'linux resolution=native_panel_res'? It's possible we lost some of the hacks to work around some of the weird laptop hardware when restructuring some of this code
tcallawa: ping?
Apologies. I have needed to actually use that laptop of late, I'll test it tonight.
linux resolution=native_panel_res does not work. linux resolution=1024x768 does not work either.
I'd need to play with the machine to figure out anything else.
The native resolution was 1400x1050, which made this work. I added some code to sniff through the first failed attempt to start X to see if there is any info on the panel size in the X.log, and try again using that size.
closing