Bug 826778 - Fedora 17 boots into a "split screen" (into left and right part) and not responding
Summary: Fedora 17 boots into a "split screen" (into left and right part) and not resp...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-05-30 23:58 UTC by bugmail
Modified: 2013-08-01 13:33 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 13:33:26 UTC
Type: Bug
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Split screen img (69.94 KB, image/jpeg)
2012-07-21 19:27 UTC, bugmail
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Description bugmail 2012-05-30 23:58:49 UTC
Description of problem:

Tried several times; 1 in 5 it boots and loads the gnome 3 desktop successfully, no problem. But 4 of 5 times from the first fedora logo the screen is split into 2 parts, when background image wallpaper appears mouspointer moves but no gnome menues shows and nothing responds (it is like the screen image has moved sideways, making the left part showing at the right side). Have to manually turn off the computer. With Fedora 17 Beta I didn't have this problem, did a fresh install Fedora 17 -64bit from dvd, aswell tried install from live cd both the same once installed. Don't know what component... so i post it as kernel.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
17

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Standard Boot official release
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Actual results: 4 out of 5 times Split screen, gnome 3 doesn,t load properly, not responding. 1 out of five times system works as it should.


Expected results: Operating system to load succesfully.


Additional info:

Graphic card Radeon HD 6450 default Open Source driver.

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2012-07-10 16:56:15 UTC
Which kernel are you having problems with exactly?

Does the 3.4.4-5 kernel update solve anything?

Comment 2 bugmail 2012-07-21 18:21:31 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Which kernel are you having problems with exactly?
> 
> Does the 3.4.4-5 kernel update solve anything?

I had to revert back to fedora 16 that runs stable for me, but today I made another attempt in installing f17 and the issue was the same from 64bit live cd. But after 4 reboots it booted properly so that I could make the updates. It now seems to boot as it should every time, so I think the... whatever update it was, solved it.

Comment 3 bugmail 2012-07-21 19:27:49 UTC
Created attachment 599548 [details]
Split screen img

Comment 4 bugmail 2012-07-21 19:31:23 UTC
Ok I spoke too soon... It's still messed up, Kernel: 3.4.5-2 64bit, with all the latest updates.

View attachment above, I'll have to go back to f16 again and possibly wait until f18 is released.

Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2013-07-04 04:26:11 UTC
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Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining
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Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2013-08-01 13:33:50 UTC
Fedora 17 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-07-30. Fedora 17 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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