Bug 197792

Summary: Make the Nvidia FX 550 use the VESA driver
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component: hwdataAssignee: Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 4.0CC: jfeeney, tao, wwlinuxengineering
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Fixed In Version: RHEA-2007-0231 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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hwdata-quadro-fx-550-use-vesa.patch none

Description Bastien Nocera 2006-07-06 13:43:12 UTC 
hwdata-0.146.18.EL-1

The "Nvidia FX 550" requires the VESA driver to work properly, the nv driver on
that card hangs the machine hard.

Patch below.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-07-06 13:43:14 UTC 
Created attachment 131995 [details]
hwdata-quadro-fx-550-use-vesa.patch
Comment 2 Florian La Roche 2006-07-25 16:41:41 UTC 
Please submit pci.ids upstream on sf.net, then this should be ok to go in.

regards,

Florian La Roche
Comment 3 Rogelio Noriega 2006-08-10 12:39:23 UTC 
The Current SF device entry (014c) for the FX 550 is incorrect I've sumbitted 
the correct ID (014d)
Comment 10 Charles Rose 2006-11-30 10:34:18 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Please submit pci.ids upstream on sf.net, then this should be ok to go in.

sf.net now has the correct entry now:
10de:014d: NV18GL [Quadro FX 550]

> 
> regards,
> 
> Florian La Roche
>
Comment 12 Samuel Benjamin 2007-02-14 23:37:34 UTC 
Fixed in hwdata-0.146.24.  Dell is requesting test package.
Comment 15 Issue Tracker 2007-04-19 22:08:19 UTC 
A fix for this issue has been included in RHEL4.5. Please test the Release
Candidate of RHEL4.5, which was released today to Partners, and let us know
if the problem is resolved. The Release Candidate can be downloaded from
here:

ftp://partners.redhat.com/af38ac4316ba20df2dec5f990913396d

Internal Status set to 'Waiting on Customer'
Status set to: Waiting on Client
Resolution set to: 'RHEL 4.5'

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 issue 91461
Comment 16 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-05-01 17:49:09 UTC 
An advisory 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/RHEA-2007-0231.html