[Mageia-dev] Important and urgent: people with ati cards needed on beta3 pre release qa

Wed Apr 18 01:24:27 CEST 2012

18.04.2012 01:27, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 17/04/12 22:15 did gyre and gimble:
+>> Hi there,
+>>
+>> we have some kind of an ugly problem with ati cards on beta3 pre relase.
+>> After installing the dvd it just won't boot.
+> 
+> Don't you mean "X does not start" rather than "it just won't boot"? Or
+> have I missed something fundamental here?
+> 
+> I already somewhat wasted your time earlier because I got you to get all
+> sorts of interesting debug for me because I thought it was a boot/init
+> problem, but it turns out X is just failing to initialise the vesa
+> driver.... have I missed some details on this problem?
+
+I indeed thought that Oliver had said he had no /var/log/Xorg.0.log
+after first boot and thus it didn't even try to start X... But
+apparently that wasn't the case after all, so maybe I misunderstood (or
+misread).
+
+I've added a comment in the bugreport.
+
+> Sorry for asking, but as you say it's an important issue.
+> 
+> Col
+> 
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+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
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