FS#26145 - Drivers included on live cd cause ttys to be mangled

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Alex D (Hiroe) - Thursday, 29 September 2011, 11:38 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Sunday, 09 October 2011, 17:10 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Hardware Issues
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2011.08.19
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: On my hp pavilion 2000 the live cds' tty extends beyond the top and bottom of the screen. This happens when udev starts, it does not affect the terminal before udev starts or grub affect grub. Changing the resolution in grub does not help. Installing while only being able to see the top half of your terminal and then installing the proprietary nvidia drivers does fix the issues, but I wouldn't recommend it.
The card is a GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M. Although the issues with the drivers (nouveau I presume, lsmod shows it) are an upstream issue, the fact that the live cd is using fairly unstable drivers that try and take advantage of a bunch of hardware features that may or not work instead of one that makes use of the standard vesa core that can be used stabily on pretty much anything is an issue with arch.

This is a pretty severe issue for people with older laptops trying to install arch for the first time.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

archlinux-2011.08.19-netinstall-x86_64

* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
Use a live cd on an hp pavillion 2000, or on a graphics card that nouveau doesn't fully support.
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Closed by  Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Sunday, 09 October 2011, 17:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  upstream/broken hardware
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Thursday, 29 September 2011, 13:30 GMT
Just use add modprobe.blacklist=nouveau on kernel command line.
Comment by Alex D (Hiroe) - Thursday, 29 September 2011, 16:13 GMT
An easy workaround doesn't neccesarily make it any less severe of a bug, especially since figuring out that nouveau is the issue is difficult at best on a laptop running it. But thank you for the support, I suppose I should have mentioned that I got it working before I posted this. Hopefully at least fancy graphics drivers will be blacklisted on future live cd's, it's not exactly keeping it simple. Simple would be using the vesa drivers, unsiple would be using potentially unstable code in order to get some extra graphical features.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Thursday, 29 September 2011, 18:42 GMT
Please report to upstream (nouveau). Then this broken hardware will be blacklisted in the driver. There is nothing to do in live medium.
Comment by Alex D (Hiroe) - Thursday, 29 September 2011, 19:34 GMT
Alright, thanks.

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