F13 -EGPUDRIVERNOWORKIE

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:44 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 17:20 +0100, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 March 2010 17:14:41 Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I tried to install this new Goddard thing on my laptop and it seems to be
> > > b0rken https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572243
> > > 
> > > Any chance to get graphical installer with vesa driver?
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Michal
> > 
> > afaik you have to use xdriver=vesa as additional boot parameter
> 
> He did.  I took the sensible precaution of dumping /proc/cmdline in the
> X log for exactly this reason.
> 
> The real issue is that the addition of xorg.conf.d support seems to have
> changed how the automatic configuration logic works, such that _only_
> the intel driver is loaded, instead of falling back to vesa.
> 
> I'm looking into it.

This sounds like it's similar to what we saw with the vboxvideo driver,
right? When that failed it didn't fall back to vesa, either...
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