Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 88247
Graphic installer doesn't send any signal to monitor
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:50 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: the problem occurs directly after anaconda probes for the video card, monitor, and mouse. it gets all 3 correct: nvidia geforce2 gts, nec multisync fp1350x, and generic ps/2 mouse (good enough at least.) however, right when it attempts to start the xserver, the monitor goes blank. no signal is sent. the monitor acts as if the computer was off. the installer seems to continue to function, but i can't see anything going on. i would let this go, but the text based installer ruined my mbr on my harddrive, whereas the redhat 8 installer didn't. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat 9 anaconda How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot the installer from the cd 2. choose graphic installation Actual Results: the graphic installer fails to send a signal to the monitor every time. Expected Results: i expected this, only because it's happened 5 times in a row. Additional info: i attempted to change my XFree86Config file on my redhat 8.0 install to the original "nv" driver (from "nvidia") but it didn't help. there were no seen errors in the tmp/log file anaconda puts out. i can't retrieve that because i had to format the drive after the text based installer ruined the mbr my primary drive.
The text based installer is identical, except for lacking a few extra features, to the graphical installer. I would recommend you use the text mode installer to install your system, then you can debug the X issue on the installed system much more easily than in the installer environment.
i did as requested. the text based install worked the second time. but after i loaded it up, everything was fine until the xserver started up again. then, like the graphical installer, the signal was completely cut. i was able to solve the issue by booting up with init level 3, logging onto download.nvidia.com via command-line ftp, and downloading/installing the new nvidia drivers. this leads me to believe that the "nv" driver that comes with xserver is somehow not working. i'm sure this isn't redhat's fault, but you guys should look into it. thanks for responding so quickly.
Same problem here. the installer identified my Nvidia Geforce4 and SyncMaster monitor but just when X supposed to start, the signal to the monitor went off. Seems like the nvidia driver included with the installer is not good.
Reassigning to the X server component.
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