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

Wed Apr 18 08:41:33 CEST 2012

Am 18.04.2012 01:24, schrieb Anssi Hannula:
+> 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.
+>
+At first boot, X doesn't start at all, the system hangs before that.
+
+When booting without nokmsboot parameter, I get a message, this won't 
+work, because vesa doesn't support kms. But at least I get a tty (which 
+I don't get using nokmsboot).
+After installing radeon-firmware and reconfiguring to use the ati 
+driver, X doesn't start again but it tries to and I do have a Xorg.0.log 
+(I attached to the bug report)
+This only happens, when configuring to use the ati graphics card, when 
+configuring to use the intel graphics, everything is fine.
+I hope, I did make that clear now. If not, please ask.
+By the way, I'm configuring which card to use in drakx11, the bios does 
+not give me the possibility to disable one of the cards completely.
+
+I will reboot in some minutes and get the things, Anssi asked. The 
+problem is, that hardware is my main machine and I can't have a non 
+working test system booting all day, since I need to do some work on 
+this machine as well.
+
+Oliver
+