On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 21:59 -0400, Ted Miller wrote:
I have the same problem on the install disks and on the Live CD: The computer locks as soon as the Xserver starts. I end up with a blank screen (color varies) with a moving mouse cursor. Nothing else. Nothing appears on the screen. Keyboard and mouse are inoperative. Even Alt-SysRq-R doesn't work. Only way out is the reset button (or maybe SSH, but I don't have another machine handy to try that from).
I am expecting you to blame in on "upstream", but you can't blame the LiveCD on upstream.
Sure we can ... the nv driver is the same on both the Live CD and the distro. (Same xorg software). It isn't really blame ... that hardware is just not on the supported list. It may be fixed on a future upgrade.
With the LiveCD, I can boot OK by using the VESA driver. The root of the problem seems to lie in the open-source "nv" video driver and my card. The proprietary "nvidia" driver works fine (once it is installed).
You can probably also use the nvidia option from the live CD as well ... however I know that does not help you get the distro installed.
With the install disks, I am stuck with a text install (and thus locked out of some of the LVM options I need). I have not found a way to override the autoprobed video driver except to use "noprobe", and I have no idea what drivers I need to install to do the install correctly.
You can do the command lvm from the command line {press alt-F2 to get a command line (after the Welcome to CentOS and prior to going into disk druid)} to manually setup your LVM prior to entering the manual disk druid setup ... then assign things to that setup.
Wish list for fixes:
Fix (or update) "nv" driver so it works right with all 6200 cards.
Fix the autoprobe so it uses the "vesa" driver for my card (Gigabyte
GV-NX62158D<P>).
Create option "xdriver=" on install disks, like there is on video disks.
Create option "noprobe-video" and let me tell install disk to use VESA
driver.
If I can supply any more information to help diagnosis of this mis-probe, I will gladly poke my system if you give me detailed instructions as to what commands to execute. Doing it from the LiveCD-4.4 is probably best and most repeatable.
Ted Miller Elkhart, IN, USA
Since no one has any feedback, I assume the next step is to file a bug report?
Ted Miller
We are not going to do major changes to the anaconda or xorg packages that are not initiated from upstream. I am sorry, but that is just how it is. They may support that card later, they do not now.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes