Bug 70462

Summary:	no support for GeForce 4
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Thomas Schuett <info>
Component:	redhat-config-xfree86	Assignee:	Alexander Larsson <alexl>
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Version:	limbo	CC:	mharris
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Description Thomas Schuett 2002-08-01 16:24:47 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020712

Description of problem:
in /etx/X11/XF86Config

the installer creates a "vesa" driver when choosing "GeForce 4" Chipset instead
of creating the following:

----snip

Section "Device"
        # no known options
        Identifier   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
        Driver       "nv"
        VendorName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
        BoardName     "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
        Chipset "GeForce3"
        #BusID
EndSection



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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start rh xf86 config tool
2. select GeForce 4 Chipset
3. let it create a config...
	

Actual Results:  higer resolutions do not work

Additional info:

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-08-01 23:13:48 UTC

That is correct, because all GeForce 4 cards are unsupported.
XFree86 4.3.0 when released will support GeForce 4, but the nv
driver does not support it currently, so this is not a bug.