Rawhide install success - NOT?

[John Ellson]

John Ellson wrote:
> G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:25:37AM -0800, MJang wrote:
>>  
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> Just reporting success with an install from today's (11-18) Rawhide on
>>> my HP Laptop (ze4500 series). Presumably with the freeze in effect,
>>> today's build is essentially the same as what we'll see from FC5 
>>> Test 1.
>>> So if you want a pre-preview.....
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mike
>>>     
>>
>> On the other hand....
>> Some module being probed during hardware initialization is munging my
>> video display.  This has happened with the Trident Cyberblade/i1 and an
>> ATI Rage XL card.
>>
>> The screen comes back from reset with vertical lines and bits of text
>> (not even whole letters!) between the lines.  I've moved the tridentfb
>> module out of the way, and that implies that it's some other module that
>> is the culprit.  I'm off the hunIn my case I probl.
>>   
> Any chance it could be hal, perhaps on an Athlon?
>
> I upgraded five i686 boxes and one Athlon yesterday, and only the 
> Athlon had problems.
> I couldn't get X to start.  I tried three different graphics cards
> without success.  Eventually I downgraded hal and that fixed it.
>
> I don't recall why I suspected hal.  Something in /var/log/messages I 
> think.
>
> John
>
It wasn't hal I downgraded, it was udev.  From udev-075-2 to udev-075-1.

Sorry for the false accusations against hal.