NFS install and i815 graphics

[Russell Coker]

I have a machine with an i815 graphics device on the motherboard.  When I do a 
regular CD install the GUI works fine.  When I boot with "linux askmethod" 
with FC3T3 and select NFS install then at the time it goes to graphics mode 
the machine locks up.

What are the differences between CD-ROM and NFS install modes in terms of 
graphics?

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[Shahms King]

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 00:59 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
>  I have a machine with an i815 graphics device on the motherboard. 
> When I do a 
>  regular CD install the GUI works fine.  When I boot with "linux askmethod" 
>  with FC3T3 and select NFS install then at the time it goes to graphics mode 
>  the machine locks up.
>  
>  What are the differences between CD-ROM and NFS install modes in terms of 
>  graphics? 
I'm not sure if this helps, but I just completed a network install on my
Sony VAIO laptop with an i815 graphics card.  Since I can't boot off the
CD-ROM drive with the newer (post FC2) non-floppy-emulated iso's, I had
to PXE boot the installer and so didn't actually do the graphical
install.  However, after the install was finished I noted that the
graphics in X were . . . weird.  Things didn't update properly and other
weirdness. (Pull down the menus, have the desktop icons disappear,
widgets don't appear until you mouse-over them, etc.)  There is a bug in
bugzilla related to i815 cards crashing that may have something to do
with your problem.  It is marked as fixed in the latest FC3 xorg
releases, however, so maybe not.

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[Russell Coker]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:59, Russell Coker <russell(a)coker.com.au&gt; wrote:
>  I have a machine with an i815 graphics device on the motherboard. 
> When I
>  do a regular CD install the GUI works fine.  When I boot with "linux
>  askmethod" with FC3T3 and select NFS install then at the time it goes to
>  graphics mode the machine locks up. 
It turns out that I was incorrect in this.

The problem is intermittent, I can't determine what triggers it.  It occurs 
most of the time on my machines that have Intel 815 graphics, both an IBM 
P3-800 desktop and a HP P3-800 desktop.

When it occurs the X server starts, the X cross cursor is briefly displayed 
along with the mouse cursor that is normally used by Anaconda (two cursors, 
but only the X cross cursor moves) and the Fedora welcome screen is displayed 
with lots of what looks like static covering it (seems that it's the graphics 
content from the boot loader which was still in the video memory).  After 
about 1 second of that the screen goes to all vertical stripes of different 
colors and the system locks up solidly enough that the caps-lock key does not 
change the state of the caps-lock LED.

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[Paul Iadonisi]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 23:00 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:

[snip]


>  When it occurs the X server starts, the X cross cursor is briefly
> displayed 
>  along with the mouse cursor that is normally used by Anaconda (two cursors, 
>  but only the X cross cursor moves) and the Fedora welcome screen is displayed 
>  with lots of what looks like static covering it (seems that it's the graphics 
>  content from the boot loader which was still in the video memory).  After 
>  about 1 second of that the screen goes to all vertical stripes of different 
>  colors and the system locks up solidly enough that the caps-lock key does not 
>  change the state of the caps-lock LED. 
  I saw the same problem.  I couldn't get reliably burned CD-RWs (old
ones that need replacing), so I tried an NFS/ISO install on a Compaq
IPaq P3 1GHz box with an i815 integrated graphics controller.  And
xscreensaver seems to kill the graphics unrecoverably (X seems to crash,
and there are some vertical lines on the left portion of the screen),
but I can at least hit the power button and it shutdown gracefully.
  I'm also still seeing the refresh screen problem described in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132267 when not
using the two XaaNo* workarounds listed there.


Using FC3T3 with updates.


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