Bug 56675
Summary: | Inspiron 8100 w/Geforce2 Go does not work in RH7.2 | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Art Fore <art> |
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.2 | ||
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: | 2001-11-24 15:32:26 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Art Fore
2001-11-24 04:30:28 UTC
This video hardware is not supported. Also, usage of the Nvidia
binary only drivers is not supported. Please contact Nvidia for
technical support for Geforce 2 Go.
Just to clarify this issue even more, right from the horses mouth:
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 14:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovich>
To: XFree86 devel list <devel>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Subject: Re: Nvidia status document:
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Thomas Witzel wrote:
> What means GeForce2 Go is not supported ? XFree runs on mine...
>
Some people have said the Toshiba laptops work with the "nv" driver.
I've never seen it work, and frankly, I don't see how it can. It
certainly doesn't work on the one we have here. Must be some sort
of bios miracle you are seeing. The "nv" driver definitely does not
support the GeForce2 Go in terms of having code required to make
it work for the general case.
Mark.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41157 *** Why does RH Linux 7.2 come up with Geforce2 Go as a selection for the video driver then if it is not supported? Art Simple. In the interest of TRYING to support our users, we have made our tools _aware_ of new hardware, so that they can detect it, and when drivers are available, the new hardware will "just work" without having to update Xconfigurator, kudzu, pciutils and 50 other utilities. It is obvious to me now though that it is more of a problem to users than a help. I've been asked this question about 20 times now, and so in the interest of preventing user confusion, I am going to now disable support in our tools for all hardware that we do not directly ship support for. Thanks for your feedback! It may be a good idea to detect the card anyway AND report that its unsupported. This way, the user will not be confused when later he/she finds that lspci can identify the video card but not Xconfigurator. This will help the user and developer a lot because the user: 1. will atleast know what video card (with exact device id) he/she has 2. will try for a non-redhat/non-xfree86 solution (such as closed source nvidia and savage drivers) 3. will not make unnecessary bugzilla reports thanks - Nil |