Bug 8283

Summary:	Dual arch cannot setup the graphic screen with ATI: must fall back to frame buffer
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Pierre Jarillon <jarillon>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	Melvin.Ross, ennael1, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	ldetect-lst	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Pierre Jarillon 2012-12-03 13:50:04 CET

The video card is ATI Radeon RV250 [mobility FireGL 9000
During the installation, the system said that the driver was not available because non free mirrors were not set up.
At the end of the installation, the system reboots. The graphic mode which is the default, gives a locked screen. Only magic keys (Alt Sys [reisb]) allow to go out. 

It is then very difficult to go out of this. I had to boot in single user, to edit the file urpmi.cfg because rpmdrake is not available in this mode, to start drakex11 and to test different configurations which lock the screen. The only way out is to use the frame buffer.

After N reboot, I had LXDE working and it was possible to use MCC to update the system with Radeon HD 4870 and earlier working.

Conclusion : If the video driver cannot be loaded, it is necessary to fall back to fbdev.

Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-10 18:23:02 CET

CC: (none) => ennael1, thierry.vignaud
Assignee: bugsquad => anssi.hannula
Source RPM: (none) => ldetect-lst

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2012-12-10 18:25:34 CET

Note than beta1 should enable you to enable firmwares for graphic cards

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 2 Anne Nicolas 2012-12-10 18:27:35 CET

not sure about that at least in local media as dual iso  is already full

Comment 3 Pierre Jarillon 2012-12-10 21:08:19 CET

Then, if the graphic driver is not found, the best fallback is the frame buffer which is used during the installation.

Comment 4 Melvin Ross 2013-03-29 02:40:28 CET

I can confirm that this also happens to me with a Radeon 3870x2. I find the process of dropping to a command line, editing urpmi.cfg, enabling non-free, then picking fglrx as the driver as a trivial annoyance, but new users would likely quit the distro at this point.

CC: (none) => Melvin.Ross

Comment 5 Anne Nicolas 2013-03-29 08:30:43 CET

Dual size is much too low to have all the non free drivers. We have just added network one to allow user to enable nonfree remote repository. It's now working well.

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