Cant boot F13 Live

[Gul Dukat]

Hi,

I seem to have a problem booting F13-Live on my laptop. Which a wanted to setup for testing F13. I had the same problem with the Alpha-version. After booting the Live-CD, it seems to hang, after the black screen with the F13-bar at the bottom of the screen. After that only a black screen with blinking line. I have the idea that its an issue with my grapics-card, which is a 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

I've tried a different boot-option (linux vesa), but it didn't help. I also tried the CD on a different laptop/PC, without any problems. I'm planning on putting it down as a bug, but I would like the find a solution first. Anyone?
Thanks in advance.

[AdamW]

boot with '3' as a kernel parameter. that'll boot you into text mode. Then you can log in as root and use 'system-config-display' to set up the vesa driver, and hopefully get to a desktop. Then we'd definitely like a bug report: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Xorg_problems . thanks!

(isn't that the oddball SiS chipset which only works with the driver from http://www.linuxconsulting.ro/xorg-drivers/ , or - now I look at the latest version of the package I built for Mandriva, which others have updated - a bunch of patches from SiS?)

[Gul Dukat]

boot with '3' as a kernel parameter. that'll boot you into text mode. Then you can log in as root and use 'system-config-display' to set up the vesa driver, and hopefully get to a desktop. Then we'd definitely like a bug report: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Xorg_problems . thanks!

Will try that, thanks. And a bug-report will follow.

(isn't that the oddball SiS chipset which only works with the driver from http://www.linuxconsulting.ro/xorg-drivers/ , or - now I look at the latest version of the package I built for Mandriva, which others have updated - a bunch of patches from SiS?)
Well don't know about that oddball-part. But the right driver worked under F11 and F12.
And Mandriva seems to be the only Linux-taste that has the right drivers for this VGA-chip. With the vesa-driver installed under F11 and F12, I only can get a resolution 1024x768. But after installing system-config-display I seem to be able to change the resolution.

[AdamW]

oh, so you were using vesa with f11 and f12? interesting. maybe f13's sis driver claims to support the chip but doesn't work, or something...

yeah, I remember when I packaged the driver for MDV it was the only distro which had it, some people were quite happy :)

[Gul Dukat]

Well I tried MDV for a little while, but its not for me. So I decided to use this laptop for testing purposes. But thus far, I've been unable to get it to boot.

Isn't there another to work around this?

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boot with '3' as a kernel parameter. that'll boot you into text mode. Then you can log in as root and use 'system-config-display' to set up the vesa driver, and hopefully get to a desktop. Then we'd definitely like a bug report: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Xorg_problems . thanks!
AdamW, I tried to setup a bug report, following the link you gave me. Except, after booting from the Live-CD, as I described above, I can't access any of the required files, which need to be sent as an attachment. Isn't there another way for me file a bug-report?

[AdamW]

you should be able to access them. on a live CD, root account has no password. if you still struggle could you give a bit more detail about why you 'can't access' them?

[Gul Dukat]

you should be able to access them. on a live CD, root account has no password. if you still struggle could you give a bit more detail about why you 'can't access' them?

Sure. Maybe, I was a little short on info. As have black screen with a blinking cursor, I cant enter anything. When I enter a key, it jumps a space. I can't enter anything, so I cant access any logs. The cursor just hangs and only blinks. It puzzles me too.

[AdamW]

so when you boot to runlevel 3 it's like that straight away, you don't see a login prompt?

what if you hit ctrl-alt-f2, ctrl-alt-f3, to try to switch to the other virtual terminals...still the same?

[Gul Dukat]

Yes, to both questions. Thats why I cant access any logs.

[AdamW]

ah, I see. Is it the same if you take 'rhgb quiet' out of the boot parameters too?