From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: My system freezes up, (i.e. keyboard and mouse dont respond) when the X11 server starts up and displays the first graphical page of the installation process. Both keyboard and mouse are plugged in. When I run Red Hat 8.0, the system operates perfectly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start Phoebe-2 gui install 2.wait for X11 server to startup 3.See first page of graphical installation, then try and move the mouse. It don't move. <ctrl><alt><f1> does not get me into the text console. Additional info:
I have a Matrox 450, a ps/2 mouse and keyboard. I run a dual PIII system with an ASUS mother board.
Exact motherboard and chipset model? (probably a duplicate of 80293)
Created attachment 89449 [details] output of lspci command output from lspci command. This give you the motherboard chip set.
The motherboard is a Tyan Tiger 133 model S1834D-I, dual slot 1 PIII motherboard. VIA 694X, 1AGP/6 PCI/1 ISA, ATX form factor This motherboard does have a problem with XFree86 4.X which was never resolved. X11 will freeze up the system if I leave some graphics options turned on in the XFree86 config file. What follow's is the Module section of my config file. Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" # Load "fbdevhw" # Load "glx" # Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" # Load "dri" EndSection The stuff which is commented out allows my X11 setup to work without freezing up my system. My guess is that these options are turned on in the XFree86 setup for the installer or something similar which then freezes up my system. One thing to note. The freeze would occure only rarely on my current system. (i.e. The way I would test it would be to leave the screen saver running all night long. In the morning I would come in to my office and find my system frozen up. After commenting out the stuff from the Module section, the screen save could be left on over night and my system would still be running.) I hope this helps. Cheers. Steve.
Are your keyboard leds blinking when it freezes?
nope. I see no flashing led lights on my keyboard. The is system totally dead.
Reassigning to X component.
Do a text mode install, then configure X, then attach your X server log and config file from a failed X session.
Sorry Mike, but I don't want to do that with a beta install, since I may risk changing to a new version of XFree86 which is broken and I need to have my system up and running. I'll keep my fingers crossed with 8.1 comes out and if I do have problems them, I'll do as you suggested. cheers. Steve.
So if there is a problem still, what you're saying above is that you don't actually want it fixed, but you'd rather we ship it broken, so you can file another bug report when you try to install the final OS release? Makes sense. ;o) Seriously though, you're the only one who has reported this problem, and I'm unable to reproduce it on G450 here. I've asked others with G450's to send me comments on if they can reproduce this, and so far no problem reports. I'm assuming the problem was either a local transient, or is resolved in the current set of packages, and closing it as WORKSFORME for now. If the problem recurs, please reopen with the requested info. Thanks.
While chatting on IRC about this with other G450 users: <ircuser> tyan tiger 133 is his problem <ircuser> that board has AGP issues Also, someone pointed out that your original report claimed to be using ASUS motherboard, which you later claim to be Tyan motherboard. Which is it? ;o)
<ircuser> he can fix it by installing without a network and sound card initially; then making sure no IRQ sharing is being done; though its one of those miliage may vary things <ircuser> I hated that motherboard and I hate tyan for making it
I understand Mike. My guess is that the reason the X11 install does not work is the same reason I had to remove the GL module and turn AGP interupts off. This all happend when redhat went from XFree86 3.X to 4.X. I have a very strong feeling the problem has to do with the particular version of my motherboard. I'm planning on upgrading the motherboard in anycase which case all this may be a mutt point anyway.