Bug 67803

Summary:	/etc/X11/X link points at the wrong X server
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Manfred Hollstein <manfredh>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Manfred Hollstein 2002-07-02 08:31:37 UTC

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Description of problem:
This happened to a customer who was installing RHL 7.3 on his desktop
system with an old graphics card ELSA Winner S3 T2D

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install RHL 7.3 on a system with an old graphics card
2.Do X configuration with graphical screen on bootup
3.Reboot system
	

Actual Results:  X won't come up. The reason is that the X configurator seems
to have detected that an XFree86-3.3.6 server is required for the old card,
but somehow failed to make the /etc/X11/X symlink point at the chosen
server; it still points at ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 which is the
XFree86-4.2.0 server and which obviously doesn't support the card.

Expected Results:  /etc/X11/X should point at ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 in
this case.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Miloslav Trmac 2002-07-02 17:46:17 UTC

Second that. Additionally, when a wheel mouse has been selected during
installation, IMPS/2 is in the config file, but other needed settings
Buttons 5
ZAxisMapping 4 5
are not present.

Not that it matters too much as XF3 is going away, but it might yet bite someone.

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-19 19:03:38 UTC

The last time I tested this code, it was doing the right thing for XFree 3 as
long as the Cards database was correct.  Since we don't use XFree 3 anymore,
it's not a problem in our current codebase