F14 TC2 x86_64b

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Aug 4 16:38:19 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 22:10 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:25 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> > > Ok, so this compose seems to have anaconda-14.14.  When trying to do an
> > > nfs install, once I put in the server/directory information, it shows it
> > > connecting and trying to pull up the gui.  But after that, my monitor
> > > just stays black and nothing ever happens, nor does it seem to react to
> > > keyboard cept to do a ctrl+alt+del.  
> > 
> > Does your video card use the 'radeon' driver for ATI Radeon cards?
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596985
> > hang at start of X11 on fresh install from DVD  [2 months old]
> > 
> > The workaround is to choose "Install with basic video driver".
> 
> Figured that out and then took out the nomodset parameter from grub.conf
> and all seems to be well so far.

So, wait, it works with the radeon driver without 'nomodeset' after
installing, but not during installation? Because that would be a rather
odd bug and different from what we usually see...
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