Some bugs, where to file them?
Phil Schaffner
Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov
Mon Nov 29 22:14:41 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 16:14 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:49:27 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
> <kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> > I have had some difficulties with installing a box with a "RIVA128" gfx
> > card.
> >
... snip ...
>
> It's difficult to know if your system really is hanging.. or if there
> is a small problem with the display drivers that is affecting X
> startup for rhgb and firstboot.. without some more information. Doing
> a fresh install and booting without the boot options quiet and rhgb
> would be interesting... to see if firstboot behaves without running
> rhgb. Similarly doing an install and preventing firstboot from running
> to see if X starts up correctly would be useful.
Might try booting to runlevel 3 (type "a" at grub boot screen, backspace
to delete "rhgb quiet" then "3<Enter>"), log in as root, and do
# system-config-display --reconfig
Check detected hardware carefully to make sure it matches yours.
Phil
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