F14 Alpha blank screen during install

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 11:03 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> On 08/26/2010 09:41 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:11:00 -0400
> > Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> >
> >> Specify nomodeset in the kernel cmd line.  Known problem and in bz.
> >
> > During anaconda, I couldn't get any video to work on my system
> > at all with ati or vesa. I installed with VNC and after getting
> > updates, the ATI driver works fine.
> >
> > I'm planning on switching back to the vesa driver sometime and
> > see if I can get a log telling me why it won't work (or maybe
> > it works OK after updates as well).
> 
> The F14 Alpha DVD needs nomodeset on the kernel cmd line for most radeon 
> adapters in order to see the gui installer.

The bug's already known, documented in common bugs, and should be fixed
for Beta:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596985
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