Bug 467228

Summary:	Install hangs when starting X
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Bob Bevill <rbevill>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	rbevill, sndirsch
Version:	RC 2
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Hardware:	x86
OS:	openSUSE 11.1
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Description Bob Bevill 2009-01-19 04:50:00 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

The X package attempts to find the proper driver to start X.  Install hangs after third attempt.

Using a Dell Optiplex GX260 with embedded Intel 845 Extreme Graphics

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.whether starting in fail-safe or normal
2.whether changes graphics mode to any setting
3.

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2009-01-19 18:08:41 UTC

Known issue.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 463288 ***

Comment 2 Bob Bevill 2009-01-19 18:32:41 UTC

Thank you. 

So how do you pass the -br option to sax2 in the boot options on a brand new install?

Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2009-01-19 19:13:38 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Thank you. 
> 
> So how do you pass the -br option to sax2 in the boot options on a brand new
> install?

You can't. :-(