Forthcoming FC4 kernel update, more testing required. [ I think it's broken. ]
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Mon Sep 26 20:24:28 UTC 2005
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 01:08:57PM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Hardware:
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ running at 3 GHz
> Video Card: Sapphire Card running ATI RV280 [Radeon 9200]
> Motherboard: Asus K8N-E Deluxe with NVIDIA chipset
>
> Software:
> Various Linux Kernels
> X.Org version 6.8.2
>
> Problems:
> The system won't boot properly. It starts normally, and gets as
> far as displaying "Initializing hardware... ", and then, when
> the screen is reinitialized the display disappears, and is
> replaced by a small square of colored vertical lines in the
> middle of the monitor. I don't think the keyboard works either,
> though it's hard to tell without a display.
>
> The system will boot properly if given a "linux single" command,
> and the X-Windows subsystem can then be started OK using a
> "telinit 5" command.
>
> The above comments apply to kernel versions:
> 2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 and
> 2.6.13-1.1525_FC4
> when starting from a cold (turned off) system.
>
> They apply sometimes to kernel versions
> 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 and
> 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4
> I think only on an attempt to reboot.
Is this using the stock xorg ati driver, or ATI's firegl driver ?
Does it still happen if you set your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use
the vesa driver instead ? It sounds more like an X driver issue
than a kernel issue at first impression.
If you have this box networked, can you log into it when the display
is garbled ? If so, grabbing the X logs from /var/log/ may yield
some clues.
You have all the Xorg errata installed I assume ?
Dave
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