Preupgrade to rawhide fails with VGA monitor going out of range (i915)

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Wed Sep 9 21:26:20 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:44:24PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 21:51 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
> > Any ideas/tips?
> 
> try 'nomodeset xdriver=vesa' or just 'nomodeset vesa', that may work
> around it during the upgrade. then you can test it once rawhide is
> installed and see if you can find an error message in the X logs.
> Thanks.
> 

I tried both, but no luck :( computer crashed with both of them.. 
I have to press reset button to powercycle.

It crashes after anaconda is started, and I guess X should start up..

More ideas?

-- Pasi




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