rawhide install report: failed - now working with xdriver=vesa

[James Laska]

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 15:07 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 17:37 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> > On 08/17/2009 04:38 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 14:50 -0400, James Laska wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 11:44 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > >>> On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 22:17 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> > >>>> On 08/16/2009 09:36 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> > >>>>> Did the xdriver=vesa boot parameter and the install is proceeding
> > >>>>> normally.  Now about 85% done, further than it's gotten before.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>> It succeeded. had to add radeon.modeset=0 to GRUB to get it to startup
> > >>>> correctly.  No way to predict that.
> > >>>
> > >>> Usual procedure: file a bug on xorg-x11-drv-ati with the appropriate
> > >>> information...
> > >>>
> > >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/Debugging
> > >>>
> > >>> does the installer boot OK if you use radeon.modeset=0 (but not
> > >>> xdriver=vesa)?
> > >>
> > >> I suspect I'm seeing something similar.  With the latest rawhide
> > >> (xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-21.fc12.i686 and
> > >> kernel-2.6.31-0.125.4.2.rc5.git2.fc12.i686), I'm unable to login to
> > >> startx without seeing the following segfault.
> > >
> > > G. Wolfe, can you please check your /var/log/Xorg.*.log after trying to
> > > start up with KMS enabled on the affected system to see if your issue is
> > > the same as jlaska's? it's quite important - if this is affecting
> > > multiple cards it may have implications for the Alpha.
> > >
> > I don't show a segfault, but the QD 7200 fails to detect a screen and 
> > errs out.  The network comes up and the system is running underneath a 
> > dead head.  The error in Xorg.0.log is that it can see no monitors 
> > definitely connected, then it says screens found but not useable.
> 
> Looks like a different bug, then. Can you file it, according to the
> instructions I linked above? Thanks.

My memory could be foggy here, but I'm recalling that the segfault
wasn't apparent until I ran `startx` manually ... instead of attempting
to login from gdm.

However, it's likely that the segfault was in the logs, it just wasn't
also on stdout until I ran `startx`.

Thanks,
James
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