Hello,
Having had no feedback for about a week on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182933 (which I consider high-priority), I would like to raise attention to it and help find a workaround before FC5 gets out.
FC5T3 essentially does not work on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi (ATI Mobility X700): - Graphical install does not start (X driver problem) - Text install has messed-up menus
For the rare courageous users with enough patience to go through the painful text installation with messed-up menus (which do not permit fine selection of packages): - X does not work post install - Proprietary drivers currently do not work (test packages from livna hang the kernel each time X is stopped --which happens each time kdm/gdm restarts)
At the very least, the text install should work OK, so that users can install and use the proprietary (working soon hopefully) drivers until free drivers work. Otherwise, Fedora Core is not an option for regular Acer Ferrari users.
Did someone have better luck in getting things to work on that hardware ?
Cheers,
On 3/3/06, Philippe Rigault prigault@oricom.ca wrote:
Hello,
Having had no feedback for about a week on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182933 (which I consider high-priority), I would like to raise attention to it and help find a workaround before FC5 gets out.
FC5T3 essentially does not work on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi (ATI Mobility X700):
- Graphical install does not start (X driver problem)
- Text install has messed-up menus
For the rare courageous users with enough patience to go through the painful text installation with messed-up menus (which do not permit fine selection of packages):
- X does not work post install
- Proprietary drivers currently do not work (test packages from livna hang
the kernel each time X is stopped --which happens each time kdm/gdm restarts)
At the very least, the text install should work OK, so that users can install and use the proprietary (working soon hopefully) drivers until free drivers work. Otherwise, Fedora Core is not an option for regular Acer Ferrari users.
Did someone have better luck in getting things to work on that hardware ?
Cheers,
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Try passing
agp_try_unsupported=1
During boot up e.g. during install
linux agp_try_unsupported=1
Philippe Rigault wrote:
Hello,
Having had no feedback for about a week on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182933 (which I consider high-priority), I would like to raise attention to it and help find a workaround before FC5 gets out.
FC5T3 essentially does not work on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi (ATI Mobility X700):
- Graphical install does not start (X driver problem)
- Text install has messed-up menus
For the rare courageous users with enough patience to go through the painful text installation with messed-up menus (which do not permit fine selection of packages):
- X does not work post install
- Proprietary drivers currently do not work (test packages from livna hang
the kernel each time X is stopped --which happens each time kdm/gdm restarts)
At the very least, the text install should work OK, so that users can install and use the proprietary (working soon hopefully) drivers until free drivers work. Otherwise, Fedora Core is not an option for regular Acer Ferrari users.
Did someone have better luck in getting things to work on that hardware ?
Cheers,
I had the _exact_ same issues installing FC3t3 on my desktop, with my new Geforce 6800GS PCI-express (no other difference between when FC5t2 and FC4 installs worked fine, as they have the same problem now). From this, I'm assuming it's that the nv driver does not yet support the card, it's a few months old in manufacturing. Fortunately, the nvidia drivers from livna worked perfectly once i managed to get them installed via yum in text mode (FC4, since FC5t2/3 won't boot for other reasons) (though during this process, the X server kept trying to start and the other consoles had no text cursor (?) and wouldn't scroll down when the text reached the bottom of the screen, unless I switched away and back). -Dan
On 03.03.2006 15:25, Philippe Rigault wrote:
- Text install has messed-up menus
For the rare courageous users with enough patience to go through the painful text installation with messed-up menus (which do not permit fine selection of packages):
iirc this happens often in test releases and is ok in the final release.
i am not sure because i have no great problems with the messy menus. (i find all what i need, sometimes i have to play with [tab] before i know where i am)
but my experiences with the same boot medium was "linux text" - messy menus "linux text askmethod" - the menus are ok
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 17:21:51 +0100, "shrek-m@gmx.de" shrek-m@gmx.de wrote:
On 03.03.2006 15:25, Philippe Rigault wrote:
iirc this happens often in test releases and is ok in the final release.
i am not sure because i have no great problems with the messy menus. (i find all what i need, sometimes i have to play with [tab] before i know where i am)
That is OK for installs where you can afford to wipe out the whole disk by mistake. I couldn't afford to have that happen so I had to abandon using a text install.
but my experiences with the same boot medium was "linux text" - messy menus "linux text askmethod" - the menus are ok
I open a bug on the messy text menus and supposedly it is fixed in rawhide now.
Philippe Rigault wrote:
Hello,
Having had no feedback for about a week on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182933 (which I consider high-priority), I would like to raise attention to it and help find a workaround before FC5 gets out.
It seems that support for that chipset is not 100% stable in X11R7.0.
My recommendation would be to file a bug in X.Org bugzilla as well, to expose the problem to all X.Org developers who are working on the Radeon driver, as that will maximize the chances of the problem(s) being fixed sooner. Hopefully one of the developers has Radeon Mobility X700 hardware and can directly reproduce the problem.
http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. To further speed the process up, you may want to consider subscribing to the main X.Org mailing list at xorg@lists.freedesktop.org where you'll be able to recieve additional troubleshooting advice.
FC5T3 essentially does not work on Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi (ATI Mobility X700):
- Graphical install does not start (X driver problem)
- Text install has messed-up menus
For the rare courageous users with enough patience to go through the painful text installation with messed-up menus (which do not permit fine selection of packages):
- X does not work post install
- Proprietary drivers currently do not work (test packages from livna hang
the kernel each time X is stopped --which happens each time kdm/gdm restarts)
At the very least, the text install should work OK, so that users can install and use the proprietary (working soon hopefully) drivers until free drivers work. Otherwise, Fedora Core is not an option for regular Acer Ferrari users.
Text install on other hardware works fine, so the problem you're experiencing seems to not occur for everyone. Finding out what factors are causing the problem you're seeing will involve narrowing things down.
Theoretically, it could even be hardware problems.
Did someone have better luck in getting things to work on that hardware ?
I think there's only one bug in our bugzilla about it (yours), but you might want to query X.Org bugzilla, and scour the mailing lists to see if others are having the same problem or not. You'll definitely get further on the xorg mailing lists though.