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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:25:30AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:26:20AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> Hmm.. I wonder if it's related to intel gfx regression in 2.6.21-rc9
> reported on lkml. symptoms are pretty close..
> 

Seems like that was the problem :) 

I tried again today, and now it seems to work (using 2.6.31-2 kernel in rawhide).

-- Pasi