Bug 52191

Summary: kdm does not work with XFree86/fbdev server
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Gerald Teschl <gt>
Component: XFree86Assignee: Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 7.3   
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Hardware: i386   
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Description Gerald Teschl 2001-08-21 16:03:14 UTC 
kdebase-2.2-4

If I use the XFree86 server with the fbdev driver, kdm will not start
up correctly. gdm works fine and so does kde.

In the logs I get:
Aug 21 17:55:27 soliton modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-
81
Aug 21 17:55:29 soliton modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-
81
Aug 21 17:55:32 soliton kdm[1043]: Server for display :0 terminated 
unexpectedly
Aug 21 17:55:33 soliton modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-
81
Aug 21 17:55:34 soliton modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-
81
Aug 21 17:55:37 soliton kdm[1043]: Server for display :0 terminated 
unexpectedly
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Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-08-21 20:32:34 UTC 
This defect is considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax.
Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-22 08:37:50 UTC 
Must be a problem with the fbdev server - kdm works just fine on everything 
else. Reassigning.
Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2001-09-06 14:09:55 UTC 
What video card is this?

Please attach XFree86 logs, and config files to bug report.
Comment 4 Gerald Teschl 2001-09-10 10:31:50 UTC 
Created attachment 31456 [details]
XFree config file
Comment 5 Gerald Teschl 2001-09-10 10:32:46 UTC 
Created attachment 31457 [details]
X server log
Comment 6 Gerald Teschl 2001-09-10 10:34:20 UTC 
This is an SMI Lynx card (see beta hw #12) for further info.
Comment 7 Mike A. Harris 2001-11-01 12:45:03 UTC 
We do not support using silicon motion on framebuffer.  Please configure
the card using Xconfigurator --preferxf3 or Xconfigurator --preferxf4
to force using a 3.3.6 or 4.1.0 X server respectively.  Report this bug
upstream to XFree86 directly at xfree86, and the Silicon Motion
maintainer can look into the matter.

Thanks.