On 08/12/2010 11:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, everyone. So, we have one bug remaining for Fedora 14 whose blocker
> status is unclear:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596985
>
> Two reporters in the bug - John Reiser and Mike Chambers - and one
> reporter from the list - Rui He,
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092583.html -
> report that the screen is blanked when the installer starts X on various
> Radeon adapters when booted with default options. The system is still
> running and you can switch to a virtual console to get logs - see
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596985#c36 - but the screen
> is permanently blank until reboot. When booted with 'basic video driver'
> - which, due to an anaconda bug, actually results in the use of the
> radeon driver, but with kernel modesetting disabled - the installer is
> able to run X normally, for all three. One further reporter, Chuck
> Forsberg -
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-August/092581.html -
> had problems with both default and 'basic video mode' (radeon+UMS).
>
> Jerome Glisse reports that he was able to start X and see the display in
> the installer with one or some of his own test cards.
>
> What we need here is more data. So it would be really useful if everyone
> on this list with a Radeon video adapter could test this. It's fairly
> quick and easy and doesn't require you to actually complete an install.
> Just get the boot.iso for RC3 (currently) or RC4 (later today, likely) -
> the boot.iso for RC3 is at
> http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14-Alpha.RC3/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/boot.iso
> or
> http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/14-Alpha.RC3/Fedora/i386/os/images/boot.iso
> - boot it, and see if you can make it to the graphical stage of the
> installation process. Please reply here, and if you observe the same problem
> as the reporters, add your details to the bug report (also test the 'basic
> graphics driver' choice, and report whether you used rc3 or rc4, and x86-64
> or i386). Thanks!
Downloaded boot.iso (i386) and went into graphical mode fine once I gave
it the path to install.img. I have copies of all log files if needed
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV730 PRO
[Radeon HD 4650]
There was however a kernel issue from dmesg, should this be filed?
===================================================
[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
---------------------------------------------------
kernel/sched.c:616 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
3 locks held by swapper/1:
#0: (cpu_add_remove_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<c043cb20>]
cpu_maps_update_begin+0x14/0x16
#1: (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<c043ca54>]
cpu_hotplug_begin+0x22/0x45
#2: (&rq->lock){-.....}, at: [<c07ca1d4>] init_idle+0x26/0x10b
stack backtrace:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.35-0.57.rc6.git1.fc14.i686 #1
Call Trace:
[<c07cc316>] ? printk+0x25/0x2f
[<c046094d>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x7d/0x86
[<c042c353>] task_group+0x72/0x7e
[<c042c372>] set_task_rq+0x13/0x5c
[<c07ca282>] init_idle+0xd4/0x10b
[<c07ca5a3>] fork_idle+0x74/0x7d
[<c07c8839>] do_fork_idle+0x13/0x21
[<c07c8957>] do_boot_cpu+0x110/0x885
[<c07c8826>] ? do_fork_idle+0x0/0x21
[<c07c983b>] native_cpu_up+0x114/0x1d9
[<c07ca658>] _cpu_up+0x87/0xd7
[<c07ca6f3>] cpu_up+0x4b/0x5b
[<c0a5e8ca>] kernel_init+0xc1/0x23a
[<c0a5e809>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x23a
[<c0403982>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
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