Bug 24340
Summary: | Test X configuration fails. | ||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Sam Varshavchik <mrsam> | ||||
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 7.1 | ||||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
Whiteboard: | Florence RC-1 | ||||||
Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2001-01-31 02:42:04 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Description
Sam Varshavchik
2001-01-19 07:29:45 UTC
Assigned to a developer. This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Release-Candidate #1 Do you know what server anaconda tried to run? Also, what exactly did you change in the XF86Config file? Just DefaultColorDepth? 3.3.6 SVGA. A change to DefaultColorDepth in the svga driver in XF86Config was all that was needed. Does Xconfigurator generate a workable XF86Config file (i.e. 32 bpp)? Not any more :-( In Fisher, Xconfigurator suddenly decided to use X 4.0 for this chipset. Unfortunately, the driver in X 4.0 for this chipset is still broken. See bug #25364 Now, installing X 3.3.6, and using --preferxf3 to Xconfigurator produces other interesting results. Selecting, as before "Generic 800x600 LCD panel" for the monitor, and choosing 640x480 and 800x600 for the resolutions, now generates an XF86Config with DefaultColorDepth set to 16. Xconfigurator decides to include a single 1600x1200 resolution for this bit depth (which the chipset doesn't support), however it does in fact generate a working 24bit section, with the 640x480 and 800x600 resolutions, as I requested. So I now must merely change DefaultColorDepth from 16 to 24, in order for everything to work (plus the --preferxf3 option). Created attachment 8539 [details]
XF86Config for X 3.3.6 from Fisher. DefaultColorDepth in the "svga" section is the only problem. It should be 24, as I requested.
There is a problem with XFree 3 and that is that some cards will only work in 24 bpp and some will only work in 32bpp. We don't have a way to know which is correct until the X server runs (or fails to run). I agree that this is a problem, but I don't think we can fix it at this point. Once the XFree 4 drivers for this card work correctly, I think this problem will go away. |