Fedora 12 Alpha installation test invitation --Jul 29, 2009

Sat Aug 8 05:52:53 UTC 2009

I've fetched

14f52e43a9bdbfa3ea228318e19e2d426938640f5c6cc9f6189ba4b6facde94d *Fedora-12-Alpha-i386-DVD.iso

with a CHECKSUM file from 2009-08-04 and tried installation from harddisk.

After pointing the installer to the images location (all still in text
mode), it continues for a few seconds, then locks up hard with a black
empty display when trying to change video mode. Reproducible during 2nd
attempt, but with a black screen and a frozen cursor instead.

$ lspci -v|grep Rad
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)

Another thing I've noticed is that when choosing the keyboard layout,
some strange character sequences are displayed in the top line of the
text mode screen, <A1><A8>... or something like that.