Bug 108693
| Summary: | Diamond Stealth S220 problem | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Robert Prewitt <prewitt> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 4.3.0-43 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-11-03 00:58:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Robert Prewitt
2003-10-31 09:44:37 UTC
Ok, I read the upstream bug report, and I've generated a unified diff of the driver between 4.3.0 and current. Doing a quick review of all driver changes seems to show most of them are purely cosmetic, and the non-cosmetic changes seem likely to be safe to apply to our 4.3.0 packages. Since this hardware is very ancient and few users are probably using it, I see no harm in updating the driver to the current one. At least that way if users have problems with the rendition driver and they report them to http://bugs.xfree86.org, they actually stand a chance of getting investigated and fixed. Older hardware which is being used with older X servers and older drivers tends to be ignored in bug reports. The 4.3.0-43 build for Fedora Core will have this fix. I may or may not be able to squeeze it into RHL 9 erratum currently. If you need an updated driver for RHL 9 immediately however, I can put one on my ftp space for you if you like. Just let me know. Just an additional note that the rawhide XFree86 rendition driver has had a SEGV bugfix related to DDC for quite a while now, which may or may not have also worked around this problem. Thought I'd mention that for completeness as I just noticed I had added a rendition bugfix before and forgotten about it. The new CVS driver backport is now in my latest internal development package. Thanks for your immediate help! Please put the updated driver on your ftp if it is possible, i am really in need of it. Here is the new driver. Please update the bug report to let me know wether it works for you or not. ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/rendition/rendition_drv.o Thanks in advance. I tried the new driver on RH9 and FC1 and it works fine on both. There is possibely a problem with monitor probing, i needed to put a modeline by hand to obtain refresh rate higher than 60Hz - but i think it is OK for such old and probably rare videocard. Fedora installation works (if nofb used), but after reboot X does not start because of usining driver "vga" - so if you have the same or similar videocard as i have (Diamond Stealth S220, rendition 2100 chip), replace the fedora rendition_drv.o driver by the new one linked above and change driver to "rendition" in XF86Config. It works for RH9 too. An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2003-406.html |