Bug 85325
| Summary: | Installer fails to detect/configure Dell E171FP Flat Panel display | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Dave W. <bugzilla_account> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:52:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
Description of problem: Red Hat 8.0 Installer fails to correctly identify and configure a Dell E171FP Flat Panel display. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.0 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try installing RH 8.0 from CDs on a PC with this monitor attached. Actual results: Monitor displays a black screen with the words "Cannot display this video mode." Expected results: Graphical installer should work. Settings specified during installation should work once RH is installed. Additional info: Finally got RH installed by starting installer with "linux resolution=1280x1024 skipddc", rebooting (gives same black screen and error), killing gdm, and then manually editing /etc/X11/XF86Config to add appropriate modelines. Used the procedure described at <http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/modelines.html> to calculate the entries. The installer does list the Dell E151p (a smaller predecessor?) among its known displays, but that did not work. FWIW, the redhat-config-xfree86 utility does not work either -- after choosing appropriate resolution, etc., under the Advanced section and restarting X, the same error message appears. Specs are at <http://support.ap.dell.com/docs/monitors/e171fp/en/specs.htm>. This is a fairly new, VBE/DDC compatible display. Build date is December 2002. I can post the output log(s) of ddcprobe,read-edid, XFree86 -configure, and startx, and/or the appropriate .INF files (it is a dual-boot machine with WinXP) if necessary.