Bug 53411

Summary:	RH 7,1 senses wrong video card when installing within a Virtual PC 4.1 environment
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michael J Thompson <michaeljthompson>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.1
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Description Michael J Thompson 2001-09-08 03:59:40 UTC

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Comment 1 Michael J Thompson 2001-09-08 04:11:59 UTC

please note that I am having some trouble geetting the Java verison of Bugzilla to carry my notes over to this form. Thus I have copied my notes from another page into this form to make sure you get them. Not sure what I am doing wrong, maybe Opera is causing the issue?

DESCRIPTION
When installing RH 7.1 on a PIII host system using Virtual PC (VPC)as a Host Machine the installer senses the wrong S3 video card or loads incorrect drivers. This may or may not be a RH issues in that the VPC emulation may be wrong.

REPRODUCING THE BUG
1.install the RH 7.1 product, accept the video card as probed, click to the next install window, click test, click accept or do not accept after viewing the test desktop and then watch the monitor become distorted, low rez and 16x9 aspect ratio.

ACTUAL RESULTS
After clicking accept or do not accept when viewing the test desktop the next screen is low rez, distorted and appears to be at the wrong aspect rato

EXPECTED RESULTS
The screen should be at the correct resolution

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
It is very important that you select the basic S3 from the Generic category. Not the S3 xxx, juts the one listed as S3.

My question to you is: are there issues with your S3 drivers in the installation program or is the Virtual PC emulation wrong? 

THIS ISSUE SHOULD BE VERIFIED AND THEN DOCUMENTED ON YOUR WEBSITE since VPC is a new product and more people will be using it.

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2001-09-08 05:00:58 UTC

Installing Red Hat Linux in any simulated or emulated environment
such as Virtual PC, VMware, plex86, User Mode Linux, or any other
similar software emulation/virtualization environment is totally
unsupported.  While these environments may work, and we certainly
hope they do, we do not advertise or offer support for such
installations, nor do we test installation into such environments.