Anaconda video problems

[Leon Stringer]

Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Hi Leon,
> 
> Are you using Fedora 10 Snap 3? I installed this on a laptop-based
> system: the install was to an external USB hard drive which a Dell D420
> laptop boots. I was not installing to the laptop's internal hard drive.
> I have a 19" external Dell monitor connected to the laptop too, and I'm
> using it as the primary monitor. Also, I did my install as an http
> (URL-based) installation where I simply mounted the ISO image of the
> installation DVD to a web directory on one of my other computers, burned
> the boot.iso image to a CD, pointed Anaconda to the web directory and
> let it install that way. It seems much less fussy than an NFS install,
> and faster than installing with a physical DVD.

Thanks for your reply.

No, I wasn't aware of the later snapshots. I'll download it and give it 
a test.

> 
> 
> Leon Stringer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just got round to downloading F10B so I'm a bit behind on the bug
>> activity.
>>
>> When I got to the second screen of the Anaconda GUI the text corrupted
>> as I moved the mouse around.
>>
>> I see there are some significant video problems in  Bug 464896 -
>> (nomodeset) Collective bug for all "Cannot start without nomodeset on
>> kernel command line".
>>
>> I did start the installer with nomodeset but still get these problems.
>>
>> I took a photo of the screen showing the list title and the list
>> elements are corrupted:
>>
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/leon.stringer/fedora/f10b-anaconda1.jpg
>>
>> I also find that if I switch between page one and two of the wizard a
>> few times (i.e. clicking Next and Back) the GUI locks up completely
>> (although the mouse cursor still moves).
>>
>> System is an Intel D845GERG2 board, I'm using the on-board video
>> controller.
>>
>> Is this caused by KMS problems describe in #464896 (even though I've
>> used nomodeset)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Leon...
>>
>