Bug 68723
Summary: | Xconfigurator fails on Portege 4005 | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <brechin> |
Component: | Xconfigurator | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.2 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2002-07-12 22:09:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2002-07-12 21:07:53 UTC
Xconfigurator probes hardware to determine various configuration settings, and eventually writes out the XF86Config and XF86Config-4 files. The former file is for XFree86 3.3.6, and the latter is for XFree86 4.x. In addition, Xconfigurator sets up the symbolic link to the correct X server. In the case of XFree86 4.x, it points the symlink to the XFree86 executable, and in the case of a 3.3.6 server, it points the symlink to the specific X server being used (since 3.3.6 has many X servers whereas 4.x only has one server). Xconfigurator by default chooses the X server based on the data provided in the "Cards" database. This data indicates which server is the prefered server based on both customer feedback, testing, and available support data from upstream. In general, we default to the 4.x server for all hardware unless a particular piece of hardware does not work at all, or works quite poorly with 4.x, but 3.3.6 works much better. In that case we default the X server to the 3.3.6 one. Of course, the "default" is intended to be the best one to use in the general case for most users, and is based on feedback, etc. It is impossible to have a default work for everyone with every piece of hardware out there of course, so we allow users to override the default. Sometimes there is sometimes fringe hardware or hardware combinations. You can use the --preferxf3 and --preferxf4 options to force a given server. The Xconfigurator manpage lists the full options available. I can't hazard a guess as to what the problem is that you are specifically experiencing however without more information. I don't know what a Portege 4005 is for example. I would need to know the exact video hardware in your machine, which can be obtained via the command: lspci -vn and also "lspci -v". Please include both. Also attach your X server log and working config file, as well as the nonworking one that Xconfigurator spits out (if any). Once I've gotten all of this information, I may be able to determine what the problem is. Also, make sure that you are running all of the updates that have been released for RHL 7.2 first. Thanks There has been no activity in this bug report since it was filed, and the requested information that is required for minimal investigation has not been supplied, so I am unable to troubleshoot/debug or begin to guess what the problem could have been. Closing bug WONTFIX for the time being, as there isn't any way to proceed with the supplied information. If the problem is still a concern, please reopen the bug report and supply the requested information. Thanks. |