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Video corruption at installation of xserver-xorg

Bug #48164 reported by Scott Robinson on 2006-06-03

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #127008: Alternate install of Tribe-4 corrupts video display when installing packages (affected hardware includes Santa Rosa). Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	debian-installer (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned
	xorg (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

When the Debian installer reaches the configuration of xserver-xorg, the video corrupts on my machine and I am incapable of viewing the rest of the installation procedure.

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Scott Robinson (scott-ubuntu) wrote on 2006-06-03: Hardware on the afflicted machine.

#1

Hardware on the afflicted machine. Edit (31.9 KiB, text/plain)

See the attached file, it contains the output from report-hw.

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Scott Robinson (scott-ubuntu) wrote on 2006-06-03: Corrected hardware description.

#2

Corrected hardware description. Edit (43.2 KiB, text/plain)

See attached, this time ran with root privs.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-06-05:

#3

It's my belief that this is an xorg bug.

Changed in debian-installer:
status:	Unconfirmed → Rejected

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Rajeev J Sebastian (rajeev-jsv) wrote on 2006-06-12:

#4

Could this be related to bug #29880 ?

I have the same problem on 2 machines (both with Intel graphics). Since I could not complete the installation procedure, it left me with an unusable system :/

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Rajeev J Sebastian (rajeev-jsv) wrote on 2006-06-14:

#5

Any workarounds or upgrades available for this ?

Rajeev J Sebastian (rajeev-jsv) on 2006-06-14

Changed in xorg:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Rajeev J Sebastian (rajeev-jsv) wrote on 2006-06-15:

#6

As suggested by Mithrandir (on IRC), I used the "debian-installer/framebuffer=false" in the boot options, and the problem doesnt manifest itself.

When booting up the newly installed OS, the boot splash doesn't appear. I guess that's the result of not enabling framebuffer.

However, X works. I'm guessing something is wrong with the way framebuffer works with the i810 graphics driver ? How can one debug that ?

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Rajeev J Sebastian (rajeev-jsv) wrote on 2006-06-21:

#7

Appending "splash" to the kernel line in GRUB in the newly installed system, shows the usplash without any problems.

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John Dong (jdong) wrote on 2007-09-21:

#8

same thing happens here on gutsy 20070921.1, macbook core 2 duo 3rd gen.

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