Help understanding Anaconda source - walk through needed.

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 09:39 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 20:07 +0000, Aaron Gray wrote:
> 
> > I am looking for someone to walk me through the Anaconda source as I
> > need to understand it and cannot find where its 'main' is and how it
> > launches X Windows as I need to work out why the main installer is not
> > working on my HP D140 G3's with MCA video controllers.
> 
> Anaconda doesn't really "configure" X before running it, it just relies
> on X's autoconfiguration logic to Do The Right Thing.  I'm hoping you
> don't really mean MCA to mean Micro Channel Architecture there, one I
> didn't think anybody besides IBM was foolish enough to use that and two
> Fedora's X hasn't supported buses older than PCI for a couple of
> releases now.
> 
> Whatever problem you're having with graphics at install time, you will
> almost certainly also have after installed; it's usually easier to debug
> by going ahead and installing in text mode and then debugging graphics
> once installed.

I think the system he's referring to is this one:

http://reviews.cnet.com/soho-servers/hp-proliant-dl140/4507-3125_7-30620088.html

Graphics Controller

    Type Integrated
    Interface Type PCI
    Graphics Processor / Vendor ATI RAGE XL
    Video Memory 8 MB / 8 MB (max) SDRAM
    Video Interfaces VGA
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