vesa-mode Anaconda install

[Jos Vos]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:22:48AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:

> nomodeset should do this.  The KMS X driver should fail to bind and then
> we should fall back to vesa naturally.  If we don't it's an X driver
> bug.

It's not always that simple.  For the Intel problem I earlier mailed
about (see <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=622052>, now
upstream known as <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29449>)
I didn't manage to get a VESA-driver install working so far.

On an installed system I can make X working using the kernel
parameters "i915.modeset=0 video=vesa" (nomodeset does NOT work,
as then VESA won't work either), but I didn't figure out how to
let anaconda use the VESA driver.  I tried "nomodeset", and
"xdriver=vesa", a combination, and the above listed parameters
that do work on an installed system, but neither of these work.

I have to say I've tested this on RHEL6b2 and only partly on F13,
so you may blame me if details have changed here since then.

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