Bug 5849

Summary:	Booting - graphics problems on Fujitsu desktop computer
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Carolyn Rowse <cmrisolde>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, marja11, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Carolyn Rowse 2012-05-11 08:15:39 CEST

Description of problem:

RC booted and installed perfectly on my HP laptop, but I'm running into problems with my Fujitsu desktop computer (using the same CD).  RC got much further than Beta 3 but still not quite there.  This is with the KDE 32-bit edition.

With B3 I got an error message early in the boot process saying the display had to be re-started due to the graphics driver having been changed, but no indication of what change had been made, and then I got stuck in a reboot loop.

With RC I got a Nvidia splash picture instead, and then I thought it was going to continue perfectly, but it hung just before the desktop was fully loaded.  It got to the fourth bubble on the cauldron, the big letter K remained a blur, the bottom panel appeared but then nothing more, no wallpaper or icons.  The CD drive stopped whirring.

And yet it worked perfectly in a VirtualBox VM on the same computer!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Attempt to boot into live CD.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot into existing distro
2. Insert CD
3. Reboot

Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2012-05-11 22:12:55 CEST

See https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Errata#Radeon_HD_Issues

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-11 22:18:41 CEST

does it work with "xdriver=nouveau"

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 3 Carolyn Rowse 2012-05-12 13:15:40 CEST

This is what I've been trying this morning:

xdriver=nouveau didn't make any difference at all.

radeon.modeset=0 got me one tantalising step further - got desktop icons but no wallpaper, only a black background.

Tried the GNOME edition and that was even worse - as soon as it tried to load the desktop it crashed completely, gave me a picture of a computer with a sad face on its screen and a message that an error had occurred that the system couldn't recover from and telling me to contact the system administrator.

Decided to try some other distros that I haven't tried on this computer yet - Kororaa 16, Mint 12 and Xubuntu 12.04 - and they all booted and loaded everything up fine without any intervention needed from me.

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-12 20:09:24 CEST

hum :(
and what is your exact graphic card ?
'lspcidrake -v' in a console

(also note that radeon is for ati card)

Comment 5 Carolyn Rowse 2012-05-12 21:01:45 CEST

I thought the reference to radeon seemed a bit strange.

This is the output of lspcidrake -v:

firewire_ohci   : VIA Technologies, Inc.|VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller [SERIAL_FIREWIRE] (vendor:1106 device:3044 subv:0574 subd:068c) (rev: c0)
Card:NVIDIA GeForce 6100 to GeForce 360: nVidia Corporation|C73 [GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:10de device:07e1 subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a2)
forcedeth       : nVidia Corporation|MCP73 Ethernet [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:10de device:07dc subv:1462 subd:504c) (rev: a2)
ahci            : nVidia Corporation|GeForce 7100/nForce 630i SATA [STORAGE_SATA] (vendor:10de device:07f4 subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a2)
shpchp          : nVidia Corporation|MCP73 PCI Express bridge [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:10de device:056f) (rev: a1)
shpchp          : nVidia Corporation|MCP73 PCI Express bridge [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:10de device:056f) (rev: a1)
shpchp          : nVidia Corporation|MCP73 PCI Express bridge [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:10de device:056e) (rev: a1)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|MCP73 PCI Express bridge [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:10de device:056d) (rev: a1)
snd_hda_intel   : nVidia Corporation|MCP73 High Definition Audio (vendor:10de device:07fc subv:1462 subd:504c) (rev: a1)
ehci_hcd        : nVidia Corporation|MCP73 [nForce 630i] USB 2.0 Controller (EHCI) [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:10de device:056a subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a1)
ohci_hcd        : nVidia Corporation|GeForce 7100/nForce 630i USB [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:10de device:07fe subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a1)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|MCP73 Memory Controller [MEMORY_RAM] (vendor:10de device:07c8) (rev: a1)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|MCP73 Co-processor [PROCESSOR_CO] (vendor:10de device:07da subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a2)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|MCP73 Memory Controller [MEMORY_RAM] (vendor:10de device:07d9 subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a1)
i2c_nforce2     : nVidia Corporation|MCP73 SMBus [SERIAL_SMBUS] (vendor:10de device:07d8 subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a1)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|MCP73 LPC Bridge [BRIDGE_ISA] (vendor:10de device:07d7 subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a2)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|nForce 630i memory controller [MEMORY_RAM] (vendor:10de device:07d6 subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a1)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|nForce 630i memory controller [MEMORY_RAM] (vendor:10de device:07d3 subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a1)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|nForce 630i memory controller [MEMORY_RAM] (vendor:10de device:07d2 subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a1)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|nForce 630i memory controller [MEMORY_RAM] (vendor:10de device:07d1 subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a1)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|nForce 630i memory controller [MEMORY_RAM] (vendor:10de device:07d0 subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a1)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|nForce 630i memory controller [MEMORY_RAM] (vendor:10de device:07cf subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a1)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|nForce 630i memory controller [MEMORY_RAM] (vendor:10de device:07ce subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a1)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|nForce 630i memory controller [MEMORY_RAM] (vendor:10de device:07cd subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a1)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|nForce 630i memory controller [MEMORY_RAM] (vendor:10de device:07cb subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a2)
unknown         : nVidia Corporation|MCP73 Host Bridge [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:10de device:07c1 subv:1462 subd:7504) (rev: a2)
hub             : Linux 2.6.38.8-desktop586-10.mga ohci_hcd|OHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0001)
usbhid          :  |USB Keyboard [Human Interface Device|Boot Interface Subclass|Keyboard] (vendor:04d9 device:1603)
usbhid          : HOLTEK|Optical Mouse [Human Interface Device|Boot Interface Subclass|Mouse] (vendor:1a81 device:2204)
hub             : Linux 2.6.38.8-desktop586-10.mga ehci_hcd|EHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0002)
hub             : Genesys Logic, Inc.|USB2.0 Hub [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:05e3 device:0606)
hub             : Genesys Logic, Inc.|USB2.0 Hub [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:05e3 device:0606)
usb_storage     : Generic|USB2.0-CRW [Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip)] (vendor:0bda device:0151)

Comment 6 Carolyn Rowse 2012-05-13 13:17:40 CEST

Perhaps I should mention that Mageia 1 runs perfectly on this computer - in fact, so well you'd think they were designed for each other!

Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-14 16:41:19 CEST

Component: Release (media or process) => RPM Packages
Source RPM: (none) => kernel

Comment 7 Carolyn Rowse 2012-05-18 07:17:25 CEST

Absolutely fine with the latest KDE i586 ISO - I'm using it now.
Many thanks.

Will try and test the GNOME one later on.

Comment 8 Carolyn Rowse 2012-05-20 09:47:41 CEST

Latest GNOME one is fine as well - am using it to type this.  Thank you.

Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:02:42 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Comment 10 Marja Van Waes 2012-08-03 21:14:11 CEST

(In reply to comment #7)
> Absolutely fine with the latest KDE i586 ISO - I'm using it now.
> Many thanks.
> 
> Will try and test the GNOME one later on.

(In reply to comment #8)
> Latest GNOME one is fine as well - am using it to type this.  Thank you.

Thx, so this was already fixed

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => marja11
Resolution: (none) => FIXED