The HP Dl140 G3 has MCA based graphics. F20 seems to be mainly fixed apart from MCA based Anaconda, which gets the resolution wrong, the screen being too small for the Anaconda graphics. VESA setup mode works fine however. On 17 March 2014 22:02, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 09:39 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: >> On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 20:07 +0000, Aaron Gray wrote: >> >> > I am looking for someone to walk me through the Anaconda source as I >> > need to understand it and cannot find where its 'main' is and how it >> > launches X Windows as I need to work out why the main installer is not >> > working on my HP D140 G3's with MCA video controllers. >> >> Anaconda doesn't really "configure" X before running it, it just relies >> on X's autoconfiguration logic to Do The Right Thing. I'm hoping you >> don't really mean MCA to mean Micro Channel Architecture there, one I >> didn't think anybody besides IBM was foolish enough to use that and two >> Fedora's X hasn't supported buses older than PCI for a couple of >> releases now. >> >> Whatever problem you're having with graphics at install time, you will >> almost certainly also have after installed; it's usually easier to debug >> by going ahead and installing in text mode and then debugging graphics >> once installed. > > I think the system he's referring to is this one: > > http://reviews.cnet.com/soho-servers/hp-proliant-dl140/4507-3125_7-30620088.html > > Graphics Controller > > Type Integrated > Interface Type PCI > Graphics Processor / Vendor ATI RAGE XL > Video Memory 8 MB / 8 MB (max) SDRAM > Video Interfaces VGA > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
