QA:Testcase Anaconda User Interface Basic Video Driver

🔗 Description

This is to verify that Fedora can be installed in a safe graphics mode, using highly compatible video driver.

Bare metal only
This test case has to be tried on a bare metal system only. We need to ensure that users can boot even with not well supported graphics cards. Graphics is usually not a problem in virtual machines and therefore VM testing is not beneficial here. Please use bare metal system.

🔗 Setup

1. Prepare any media for booting the installer

🔗 How to test

1. Boot the installer using a safe graphics mode. There is a special menu item for this at the initial boot screen, usually under Troubleshooting menu.
2. Proceed with installation
3. Boot the new system

🔗 Expected Results

1. There is a special menu item at the initial boot screen to boot the installer in a safe graphics mode
2. The graphical installer displays properly and uses the vesa driver on BIOS systems or efifb / fbdev driver on UEFI systems. Confirm driver usage by inspecting /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /tmp/X.log (depending on your install media). You should see output similar to the following:
   • on BIOS systems

   [    71.321] (II) VESA(0): initializing int10
   [    71.325] (II) VESA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
   [    71.326] (II) VESA(0): VESA BIOS detected
   [    71.326] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Version 2.0
   [    71.326] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 4096 kB
   [    71.326] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: VGABIOS Cirrus extension
   [    71.326] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.0
   [    71.326] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: VGABIOS Cirrus extension
   [    71.326] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: VGABIOS Cirrus extension
   [    71.326] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: 1.0

   • on UEFI systems

   [    34.947] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
   [    34.947] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
   [    34.947] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
   [    34.947] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
   [    34.947] (**) FBDEV(2): claimed PCI slot 1@0:0:0
   [    34.947] (II) FBDEV(2): using default device
   [    34.948] (II) FBDEV(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
   	"Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32

   If there are many lines containing (II) VESA(0): or FBDEV, it indicates you are using the correct driver.

3. The installed system should contain nomodeset keyword specified in the kernel boot line. You can check by inspecting /proc/cmdline and /boot/grub2/grub.cfg.
4. When X starts on the installed system, it should be using the vesa (on BIOS) or fbdev (on UEFI) driver. Confirm by checking /var/log/Xorg.0.log for similar output to the above from the installer