[Mageia-dev] Important and urgent: people with ati cards needed on beta3 pre release qa

Anssi Hannula anssi at mageia.org
Wed Apr 18 01:24:27 CEST 2012


18.04.2012 01:27, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti:
> 'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 17/04/12 22:15 did gyre and gimble:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> we have some kind of an ugly problem with ati cards on beta3 pre relase.
>> After installing the dvd it just won't boot.
> 
> Don't you mean "X does not start" rather than "it just won't boot"? Or
> have I missed something fundamental here?
> 
> I already somewhat wasted your time earlier because I got you to get all
> sorts of interesting debug for me because I thought it was a boot/init
> problem, but it turns out X is just failing to initialise the vesa
> driver.... have I missed some details on this problem?

I indeed thought that Oliver had said he had no /var/log/Xorg.0.log
after first boot and thus it didn't even try to start X... But
apparently that wasn't the case after all, so maybe I misunderstood (or
misread).

I've added a comment in the bugreport.

> Sorry for asking, but as you say it's an important issue.
> 
> Col
> 
> 
> 


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Anssi Hannula


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