Bug 116410

Summary:	graphical install does not start on pegasos
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	peter czanik <peter>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Patrick Kirsch <pkirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description peter czanik 2005-09-11 20:02:33 UTC

Graphical install does not start on Pegasos. It tries to change to graphic mode,
but then it fails, and only text based install is available.
The message on F8 is:
(EE) failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
(ee) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: invalid argument.

Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2005-09-12 08:26:32 UTC

Stefan any idea about the hardware ?

Comment 2 peter czanik 2005-09-12 08:34:26 UTC

It is similar to specification at:
http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw_tech.php
But I got an older modell:
ATI Radeon 9200, 256M RAM, 40G HDD. I can send a dmesg, hwinfo only in the
evening from home...

Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2005-09-12 09:02:31 UTC

"glx" is only a warning. I have no idea why a Radeon 9200 does not support
framebuffer. I can't believe this. My Radeon 9200 does. Yes, send me the logfiles.

Comment 4 Marcus Schaefer 2005-09-12 18:09:06 UTC

I think standard framebuffer is not supported on PPC architectures. 
This is a kernel issue

Comment 5 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-13 06:37:15 UTC

Well, Kernel goes to Mantel...

Comment 6 Olaf Kirch 2005-09-13 06:40:04 UTC

Well, ppc bugs go to the ppc team :)

Comment 7 Olaf Hering 2005-09-13 06:44:27 UTC

This is an incorrect expectation of yast, it insists on at least 800x600.
The kernel framebuffer defaults to 640x480. To increase the resolution, pass
videon=radeonfb:1024x768@75 as cmdline option.

Patrick should probably document that.

Comment 8 Patrick Kirsch 2005-09-14 10:50:37 UTC

added a description to:
http://www.opensuse.org/PPC:Boot_pegasos

Comment 9 Olaf Hering 2005-09-19 09:13:17 UTC

video=radeonfb is the way to go.