Bug 111786
Summary: | Tracking Bug for Vesa Driver Testing Reports | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Jef Spaleta <jspaleta> |
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 1.0 | CC: | mharris |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-10-12 08:02:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Jef Spaleta
2003-12-10 03:18:04 UTC
<mharris> "It is important for users to realize, that the "vesa" driver itself, is not much of a video driver. It does not do much work at all, instead it makes calls into the video card's VESA BIOS ROM, which programs the card appropriately. Any bugs in the BIOS, may result in non working video, and since the problem is not in the driver, but in the BIOS, and we can not fix a ROM BIOS, such problems are essentially unfixable via software. The video manufacturer can fix a broken BIOS by providing a flash ROM update. </mharris> so to sum up. This testing is ONLY to try to determine a blacklist of hardware that will not work with a vesa driven 'safe mode.' This testing is not meant to fix any outstanding hardware issue, but to get a lay of the land of existing working/broken hardware so a possible 'safe mode' functionality can be created. In particular, it would be nice for users to test every video mode and color depth combination that their video card supports in it's BIOS. These can be shown in the X log file after starting up the server. It will require some minimal reconfiguration either by hand editing the config file or using our redhat-config-xfree86 config tool (system-config-xfree86 in rawhide). If someone doesn't have the time to test all of that, or for some other reason can not test it all, such as hrdware limitations, what would be nice, would be if they could at least test 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 resolutions using color depth 24, 16, and optionally 8. That would provide the minimal amount of testing for me to have a "safe mode" video driver matrix I believe. Nobody seemed to respond to my vesa driver testing requests, and no further comments were added to the report, or sent via email, etc. so I'm closing this tracker as "WONTFIX" for now, since it isn't really tracking anything now anyway. Setting status to "WONTFIX" |