Bug 226948

Summary: (MGA) X-Window is too big to exceed the screen band width during installation
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Spencer Tsai <spenceri>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-mgaAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: 5.0CC: spenceri
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Fixed In Version: 5.0.0 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-02-12 20:49:53 UTC Type: ---
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RHEL5 beta2 original (without manual config) xorg.conf after finished installation.
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RHEL5 beta2 original (without manual config) Xorg.0.log after finished installation.
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RHEL5 beta2 xorg.conf after finished VGA driver update and configuration.
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RHEL5 beta2 Xorg.0.log after finished VGA driver update and configuration. none

Description Spencer Tsai 2007-02-02 07:36:17 UTC 
Description of problem:
1. GUI X-Window will always too big to exceed the screen band width during
installation. boot command "linux resolution=800x600" is useless.
2. After installation, X-Window display is abnormal.
3. Both RHEL5 Beta2 x86 and x86-64 have the some error situation.

Platform: Gateway E-9422R and E-9522R (AMD Opteron system) VGA chipset: Maxtrox
Inc, MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) (rev02)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.2-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. CD/DVD boot or PXE boot to install RHEL5 Beta2 
2. GUI Installation window over screen band width.
3. After finished installation, X-Window display also looks abnormal.

Actual results:

Expected results:

Additional info:
1. FC6 has the same VGA display error situation. (Bug 226945)
2. In RHEL5 Beta2, after updated vendor driver the X-Window display will become
normally. But about OS installation stage, still no solution.
3. Newest vendor drivers have been attached in Bug 226945.
Attached ID=147190 and 147191
Comment 1 Spencer Tsai 2007-02-06 16:23:24 UTC 
Created attachment 147485 [details]
RHEL5 beta2 original (without manual config) xorg.conf after finished installation.
Comment 2 Spencer Tsai 2007-02-06 16:24:08 UTC 
Created attachment 147486 [details]
RHEL5 beta2 original (without manual config) Xorg.0.log after finished installation.
Comment 3 Spencer Tsai 2007-02-06 16:25:39 UTC 
Created attachment 147487 [details]
RHEL5 beta2 xorg.conf after finished VGA driver update and configuration.
Comment 4 Spencer Tsai 2007-02-06 16:26:22 UTC 
Created attachment 147488 [details]
RHEL5 beta2 Xorg.0.log after finished VGA driver update and configuration.
Comment 5 Spencer Tsai 2007-02-06 16:40:49 UTC 
Please reference to the new attached files for your requirement.
Basically, FC6 i386/X86-64 and RHEL5 beta2 i386/X86-64 have the same VGA issue.
Thank you.
Comment 6 Spencer Tsai 2007-02-07 14:34:59 UTC 
Verified with RHEL5-RC1 x86_64, this issue has been fixed.
Please close this issue.
Thank you.
Comment 7 Jay Turner 2007-02-12 20:49:53 UTC 
Closing out.