Bug 459278

Summary: SIS video driver baloney slices video display
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Larry Troan <ltroan>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-sisAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version: 5.2CC: ajax, ichute
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sosreport from system with sis driver loaded
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/var/log/Xorg.0.log
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/etc/X11/xorg.conf
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Description Larry Troan 2008-08-15 16:39:06 UTC 
Description of problem:
SIS driver on my Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo desktop "baloney slices" the video.
Switching to the VESA driver clears up the problem.


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How reproducible:
Install RHEL5.2 x86_64 with default video settings

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Actual results:
screen has vertical lines of display displaced across screen

Expected results:
Readable screen


Additional info:
Happens on x86_64 platform but suspect platform independent.
Original system had 512MB RAM with video stealing. Upgraded to 1GB but problem persists. Running xen kernel.
Comment 1 Larry Troan 2008-08-15 16:40:38 UTC 
Created attachment 314397 [details]
sosreport from system with sis driver loaded
Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2008-09-11 20:52:51 UTC 
Created attachment 316484 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2008-09-11 20:54:44 UTC 
Created attachment 316485 [details]
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2008-09-11 20:55:07 UTC 
Created attachment 316486 [details]
/var/log/messages
Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2008-09-11 20:55:38 UTC 
Created attachment 316487 [details]
/var/log/dmesg
Comment 6 Adam Jackson 2012-04-17 20:06:11 UTC 
No further hardware enablement updates are planned for RHEL5's X stack.  If this issue remains in RHEL6, please update the affected product version and reopen this bug.