F12 Alpha - no joy with Ati X1300
Adam Williamson
awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Aug 28 15:32:04 UTC 2009
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 13:45 +0200, Patrick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Don't know if this is a known issue so here it goes. Burned the F12
> Alpha i386 DVD, booted it on an Acer TM6465WLMi with an Ati X1300 and
> after the kernel had booted the standard install mode and the one with
> the basic video driver would hang at "hardware detection...". The
> screen turns light greenish starting in the lower right corner creeping
> up to the top left eventually filling the screen.
>
> Known issue or buzilla it?
Bugzilla it, but we need more details.
> Is there any workaround so I can still install F12 Alpha and test it?
> I've read something about nightly Rawhide iso's. Should I try one of those?
Try booting to runlevel 3 and disabling kernel
modesetting...'radeon.modeset=0 3' on the kernel command line. Does that
get you up in text mode?
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