RC3 still NO GO with ATI

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 09:45 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 18:09 +0800, He Rui wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 02:28 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> > > With the default driver of the basic video driver,
> > > RC3 still goes to a blank screen using Core Duo
> > > and ATU 5670 display card.  The keyboard still
> > > seems to work but without a working graphics
> > > it's  hosed.
> > > 
> > > As before, no text mode option is displayed.
> > 
> > Confirmed. Have to install with basic video driver. Is there already a
> > filed bug for tracking?
> 
> That's not 'confirmed', you're seeing different bugs. Chuck says "With
> the default driver of the basic video driver, RC3 still goes to a blank
> screen..." The word 'of' is a pretty obvious typo for 'or', so for
> Chuck, it doesn't work with radeon or vesa. For Hurry, it doesn't work
> with radeon but does work with vesa. That's not the same bug.
> 
> Hurry's case sounds possibly like John Reiser's:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596985
> 
> (note that in contrast to the initial report, later on John makes it
> clear that with basic video driver, install *does* work, unless he hits
> some other unrelated bug).
> 
> Chuck's would seem to be something different.

Actually, I've discovered a wrinkle here. The 'Basic video driver'
option isn't actually working right. For Radeons, it will result in the
installer using the 'radeon' driver, but with UMS not KMS, which will
indeed have unpredictable results: it could certainly work for some
people but not others.

I still don't understand why it's failing during install but working
post-install, though...

Still, let's track this in 596985. Please add your logs there, both of
you.
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