Rawhide install success - NOT?

G.Wolfe Woodbury ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us
Sat Nov 19 14:55:53 UTC 2005


On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:36:47AM -0500, John Ellson wrote:
> 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.

OP Here,  No, it is a Coppermine Celeron, it is a VIA chipset.  I've
used two video sets (Trident Cyberblade/i1(agp)  and  ATI Rage XL(pci))
to make sure it wasn't the video card _per_se_.  Can someone point me at
a copy of Udev-075-1?

--Wolfe

-- 
G.Wolfe Woodbury     `- -'
RHCT                   U
The Line Eater is a boojum!
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