Bug 41150
Summary: | (Trident Cyber 9397) with LCD display failure | ||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Mike Hughes <marynya> | ||||
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 7.1 | CC: | hugh | ||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | i686 | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2002-02-09 08:20:31 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Description
Mike Hughes
2001-05-17 20:08:21 UTC
Created attachment 19451 [details]
log produced by startx
The attachment I just added was actually meant for another bug report (sorry!). That bug report is related: 42033 "XFree86 version 4.0.3 doesn't work for my Trident Cyber 9388". You say that it works fine with the 3.3.6 SVGA server, but have filed it as a bug against 3.3.6.. ??? If this is a 4.x bug, please change the component to XFree86. I need your configuration files, and a server log to analyze. Mike: I'm not sure who you are addressing. I didn't realize that 7.1 included the 3.3.6 servers as well. It is clear to me that this report and my own (42033) refer to the 4.0.3 trident server. There isn't one in 3.3.6 (tridents use the SVGA server in 3.3.6). So: 4.0.3 trident server doesn't work but 3.3.6 SVGA server does. My bug report contains log and config file for the 4.0.3 setup. As a bonus, I accidentally put the log on this bug report too! XFree86-Servers - which this bug report is filed against, is the XFree86-Servers-3.3.6-* packages which is for XFree86 3.3.6. When someone files against XFree86-Servers, then it is a 3.3.6 bug. If not, and there is conflicting information, I can't read minds, and need clarification. Until the original poster changes this to "XFree86" - if it is a 4.x bug, then I leave it here as a 3.3.6 bug. I've changed things before from assuming things, and have found it best to let the poster fix any errors in their bug report. The catagory just said "Xfree86-Servers" when I made the entry and that made sense to me. The subject line should make it clear that the problem is with the version 4 "Trident" Server as supplied with the 7.1 release. My apologies if it is in the wrong place. I have had so many problems with the 7.1 release that I deleted it and restored my 6.2 system from the backup. I can no longer supply the configuration files. It did not work either as a "clean" install of 7.1 or as an upgrade from 6.2. Clear the report if it is of no help to you. Well, the 3.3.6 Server that is in Red Hat Linux 6.2 is also in Red Hat Linux 7.* for compatibility purposes. So you should have been able to use XFree86 3.3.6 in 7.1 by doing: Xconfigurator --preferxf3 --nodri In order to fix this problem however, debugging data needs to be gathered, or else the problem will never go away, and when 3.3.6 is no longer supported, the hardware that it supports that 4.x doesn't won't be supported either. I'll leave this report open in case you decide to try again. Remember, you can use 3.3.6 with 7.1 as above, so you can test 4.x and give me the config and logfile I need if you like. At least let me know your status. Thanks. Just an update to this problem report. XFree86 4.x has never supported trident video hardware very well. This is quite unfortunate for trident video hardware owners, but the reason is mostly because Trident does not openly release the specifications for their video hardware. We do not have any Trident video hardware nor specifications, so it is particularly difficult for Red Hat to troubleshoot/debug and hopefully fix any Trident related bugs as a result. When something worked before, and doesn't in a newer release, it is generally because the upstream release has changed something in the code that broke it, rather than something Red Hat has changed. That is the bad news. The good news is that Red Hat now employs the main author of the XFree86 Trident driver. This makes it much more possible for reported Trident bugs to stand a chance at getting fixed, however he still has limited access to hardware and documentation as I understand it, which is basically why the support is not very good at this time. If you are interested in trying to test out our latest release, and try various options in a troubleshooting session, I would be more than glad to go through the various steps with you, and try to narrow the problems down. XFree86 4.2.0 is released now, and available in Red Hat rawhide also, which contains many Trident fixes, and might possibly work for you. If you are interested in troubleshooting this further, we could possibly find a solution, and if not, perhaps a decent workaround. Thanks. This is believed to be fixed in 4.2.0-6.53 and later in rawhide |