From: Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com Subject: Re: O for 3 on mini install fest - Triage still needed To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases fedora-test-list@redhat.com Message-ID: 1248818710.6235.3.camel@adam.local.net Content-Type: text/plain On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 08:46 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
Three machines 0 pxeboot installs today
- Gigabyte ga-ep45-ud3p Core Duo 8500, Nvidia Geforce 9600gt - screen
goes dark at point where one would normally be asked for language
try with 'vesa' or 'xdriver=vesa'. Sounds like a bug in nouveau. Are multiple monitors connected to this system?
I added both, no effect. Tried stuff like that before. The fact that this happens, as I reported, before any obvious attempt to run X, suggests this particular problem is unrelated to X.
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 21:22 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
- Gigabyte ga-ep45-ud3p Core Duo 8500, Nvidia Geforce 9600gt - screen
goes dark at point where one would normally be asked for language
try with 'vesa' or 'xdriver=vesa'. Sounds like a bug in nouveau. Are multiple monitors connected to this system?
I added both, no effect. Tried stuff like that before. The fact that this happens, as I reported, before any obvious attempt to run X, suggests this particular problem is unrelated to X.
Can't think what else it can be, but I can't remember if the language prompt is inside X or out of it, typically...anyone?