From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: During the installation process, when anaconda start X, the monitor turns off during 3-4 seconds and after, when X comes, i cannot distinguish anything. Even the consoles become unreadable after X is started. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot on the phoebe cd. 2. press enter at the 'boot:' prompt. 3. Skip the mediacheck (or do it). 4. wait for X to come. Actual Results: First the screen seems to poweroff. After 4-5 seconds X comes. Graphical anaconda seems to run and the mouse move. But the display become unclear and i hardly distinguish things in it. The mouse cursor is like a big square but is like the rest of the screen : a real mess. Expected Results: I should see the display correctly. Additional info: My eyes works perfectly. :) I did not complete the installation process. The 1st phoebe cd passed succesfully the mediacheck test. Hardware is : Video Card : 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 64 DDR] Motherboard : Asus a7m266-d (dual athlon) Monitor : Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 230SB
Created attachment 88913 [details] The XF86Config.test anaconda generated
Created attachment 88914 [details] anaconda.log
If you do a text mode install, and run redhat-config-xfree86 afterward, does X work correctly?
I've just done a text install. During the "firstboot" program, X was in the same state. When I ran "redhat-config-xfree86", the problem was still present and i wasnt able to click on anything as i cannot distinguish buttons and all..
I've a ATI radeon 8500 card, I can install phoebe without any problem. But after I've logged in, if I move for example a terminal window with mouse or even type something under the terminal, or move any other window, I can see that some area on my monitor will have some flickers. The same setting under redhat 8.0 works well. My monitor is a SAMSUNG SyncMaster 171s (LCD).
I dont think the bug is the same as i got a radeon 7000 and it's not the same chip than radeon 8500...
It's the same here with my OEM Radeon 7500: upgraded to the beta XFree86 packages, the display is garbled(*), switching back to text mode only every other character gets displayed. (*): every other about 20 pixels get displayed or not ("X"=pixel gets displayed, "."=black): XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.....................XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX..................... .....................XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.....................XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.....................XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX..................... .....................XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.....................XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.....................XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX..................... .....................XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.....................XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
I have the same problem with Radeon 32 MB. Moreover, when I try a text installation the PC freezes and I must reboot!
I'm gettiing the same problem on 8.0. I've also tried redhat-config-xfree86 and X completely crashes stating "FATAL ERROR: X server reset by peer". That was run from linux rescue mode from the boot CD though as if I boot normal my system freezes on X and I can't switch to text mode.
Guys, please attach some more info on the cards you're using in case you haven't done it: - "lspci -v" output - exact manufacturer/model of the card - whether you use a CRT or LCD monitor Here's mine: "lspci -v": --- 8< --- 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Unknown device 1787:2709 Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at c000 [size=256] Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 --- >8 --- The card is an OEM "Xelo Radeon 7500", the monitor is a NEC MultiSync XP17 CRT attached via a DVI/VGA adapter to the DVI port of the card (so I could my VGA/TV sync converter box to the VGA port). Mike also asked me to ask you to check whether there are BIOS updates for your cards available either from ATI or the respective manufacturer.
lspci -v : 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 64 DDR] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 7000/Radeon Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Memory at f2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Expansion ROM at f3fe0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 The card is an OEM Radeon 7000 and i dont know the manufacturer. Should it be writen on the card ? (i'll check) My monitor is Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 230SB CRT
That is most definitely not a Radeon 7000. The Subsystem says it is, but I say it is not. The subsystem info is wrong. Radeon QD is an original Radeon. It was rebranded later as the Radeon 7200, but they were not widely spread as such. The Radeon 7000 is a rebranded Radeon VE, which is ATI's RV100 chip (not R100). Basically the PCI ID data on sourceforge is on crack. I'll have to hack at it with a hacksaw one of these days.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 64 DDR] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 7000/Radeon Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] I/O ports at d000 [size=256] Memory at d9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Radeon 32 MB Monitor CRT Philips 107S
I think there is a bit of a communication failure, so let me clarify things a bit. The original ATI Radeon, is an "ATI Radeon QD". The "QD" part, is the ASCII representation of the ATI device ID, which is common ATI nomenclature for their individual chips inside a given family. The hexadecimal representation of "QD" is 0x5144. This chip is part of what is known as the ATI "R100" family. Other chips include QE, QF, QG. The second chip family was the "ATI Radeon VE", which was a lower priced "Value Edition". The "VE" is part of the product name, rather than part of the actual chip part number. This chip is a member of the "RV100" family. The "Radeon VE" has a few features removed from it compared to the R100 chip family, in particular the TCL unit is gone. It is also the first chip which was marketed as a dualhead card. ATI's next generation of chips included the Radeon 7500 (RV200) and the Radeon 8500 (R200). When these chips came to market, ATI remarketed their original 2 chipset families (R100 and RV100) under new names. The original Radeon became known as the "Radeon 7200" and the "Radeon VE" was renamed to "Radeon 7000". The actual chip itself is identical, the only difference being the name printed on the box. So, as I stated above, your lspci output clearly shows the card as an ATI Radeon QD, which is an original Radeon, now known as the Radeon 7200. The information appearing on the second line labeled "Subsystem" which states "Radeon 7000/Radeon" is incorrect information. This indicates that the "pcitable" file on the system contains incorrect information in it.
Then? Solutions? I cant' install even beta 2! I have seen that Mandrake Users have similar problems: there is a hope or I have to come back tu Windows?
Making false threats that you'll go back to Windows if this is not fixed does not in any way lend itself to be conducive to helping solve this problem. The bug is reported, and there are 200 other ones reported too. There is not 200 engineers, each working on one bug in parallel however. There is one engineer working on one bug at a time. The more highly detailed the report, and more likely a problem is to be reproduceable and/or resolveable, the higher the report makes it in the "this weeks bugs to hit with a debugger" queue. Those that do not, might make next weeks queue, or the week after. Or they may remain there until upstream fixes the problem, someone submits a patch, or some other resolution. If you are unable to beta test the software patiently and provide constructive information in the bug reports, then your help in finding the solution and testing it is not requested. Bugzilla is NOT an end user help forum or tech support forum. It is _strictly_ a bug tracker, and information gatherer. The bug has been reported, and some information has been gathered, some points clarified. Now, you all wait until there is something further I must ask you to provide, or until you have something more to provide to me which might help solve the issue, and might raise it's position in the queue. Negativity/complaints, and whining, go to /dev/null If you require instant solutions, use Red Hat Linux 8.0. Phoebe is a beta test product, and is not suitable for production use. Alternatively, feel free to return to Windows, if you find that an amiable solution that meets your needs.
No! I don't want to come back to Windows! I don't want to make controversies! I am only warry because I have seen that it is a big problem and I don't see a solution! Excuse me for the reference to W.: I said so because I love Linux an I don't want to come back! Then I'm "angry" because I can't install Phoebe, but I know that RedHat an the developers are not guilty! Excuse me, truly!
* Wed Feb 5 2003 Mike A. Harris <mharris> 4.2.99.901-20030205.0 - Updated CVS snapshot to 4.2.99.901-20030205 - Removed integrated patches XFree86-4.2.99.3-encodings-Imakefile-fix.patch - Add XFree86-4.2.99.901-ati-radeon-fix-broken-argb-cursors.patch to hopefully fix all the Radeon Xcursor related weirdness (#78231) This might fix this problem. Please test this new release 4.2.99.901-20030205.0 out when it is available in rawhide or my ftpsite, and update this bug report.
Works for me (XFree86-4.2.99.901-20030203.1). For all I care, feel free to close it.
Fixed for me with XFree86-4.2.99.4-20030129.5 found in rawhide. Thank you everybody.