Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 97297
installer does not allow to test the monitor configuration
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:54:48 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 Description of problem: During the installation in version 9.0, after selecting a generic monitor and defining its configuration, this configuration cannot be tested as in the case of versions 8.x and 7.x. If the configuration is wrong there will be no graphic window if to boot in graphic mode was the option chosen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. chosing a configuration that the monitor does not support 2. 3. Actual Results: When X starts at the run level 5 the window disappear Expected Results: If the configuration could be tested it would tell that it would not work. Additional info:
Allowing testing ended up causing significantly more problems than it fixed in our experience. Usually if it failed it also hung the machine. What is the particular hardware you have which is not being configured properly?
The installation works perfectly with version 8.0. Anaconda probes the monitor, the test works, and, after the installation, everything works fine. It looks to me that version 9.0 has the wrong values for the monitor Envision EN-775e. Its range is H 30-72 KHz and V 50-160 Hz. After installing the version 9.0 and rebooting for the first time when the OS switches to graphic mode the monitor gives the message "H 20.5 Kz and V 25.4 Hz out of range". To install the version 9.0 in the graphic mode I had to use the F2 key and chose "linux lowres". I cannot understand why everything works fine with version 8.0 but it doesn't work with version 9.0
RHL 9 is actually using the values returned from the monitor, RHL 8 used the values in a table that matched the ID of the monitor. Sometimes the monitor returns different numbers than are in the database of monitors we use. You can pass 'resolution=800x600' on the anaconda command line and it will use a very conservative monitor setting during the installation.
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