f11 alpha install failure

[David L]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Robert Arendt <rda at rincon.com> wrote:
> David L wrote:
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>> I have this chipset:
>>
>> (II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 865G
>> (--) intel(0): Chipset: "865G"
>>
>> and it has also been quite troublesome.
>>
>> I've successfully done a text mode installation, but the system hung
>> after startx.  I got a bug buddy window with some corruption (I don't
>> know what crashed) after X started and then nothing for several minutes.
>> The mouse moved a corrupt little fedora wait icon around the screen,
>> but there were no other signs of life.  I didn't check if I could ping or
>> ssh into it.  I couldn't ctrl-alt-del to reboot and ctrl-alt-backspace
>> didn't
>> work (although I think I saw in the release notes that it doesn't do
>> anything by default anymore).  In the end, I power cycled and booted
>> back to the f10 partition (where there is still X corruption but no
>> hangs).  I'm pretty sure the f11 hangs are graphics driver related.
>>
>>                  David
>>
> Yep - Still struggling with 845G myself  , Bugzilla 469292
> You might try copying the xorg.conf file from your F10 install.
> If that doesn't work, try adding
>  Option "NoAccel" "True"
Thanks for the tip... I'll try that.  Right now, I'm happily running
X with the vesa driver in place of the intel driver.

> to the driver section.  Xorg may have hung and taken the keyboard
> with it (Test: does the CapsLock light work when you toggle CapsLock?)
I'm pretty sure the caps lock was dead when it was in that state.

                     David