Bug 76608
| Summary: | xvidtune crashes on start | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Burt Holzman <burt> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| 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: | 2006-02-21 18:50:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Burt Holzman
2002-10-24 02:23:45 UTC
Created attachment 81848 [details]
xf86 config file
xvidtune shouldn't ever segv, so there must be a bug in it. However, your video card is not an officially supported piece of hardware. Our configuration tools select the "vesa" driver for all unsupported hardware, in hopes that the video card BIOS isn't buggy, and will provide working unaccelerated 2D video support. I've just tried xvidtune on a few 8.0 machines here with native drivers and it works. I'll try it out again with the "vesa" driver to see if I can reproduce it with any other hardware too. Since it only seems to occur on unsupported hardware though, it's a low priority problem. I will however have a debugging session to try and find the cause if I can reproduce it on any local hardware. One thing that might help me troubleshoot, is if you can attach also your XFree86 server log from the server you're having the xvidtune SEGV in. The details in the log may be helpful in determining what values are causing the FPE. Likely a divide by zero error somewhere. Created attachment 82806 [details]
XFree86.0.log, as requested
One other fact -- this just seems to occur with the vesa driver. If I use NVidia's binary (closed source, etc etc) driver, xvidtune runs just fine. Hi, I see this bug also, on two separate ThinkPads, both with ATI drivers. It only occurs when I run xvidtune with no options, xvidtune -next actually works. I'll attach the logs and config files. Created attachment 88706 [details]
XF86Config on IBM T30 thinkpad
Created attachment 88707 [details]
XFree86 log for IBM ThinkPad T30 laptop
Created attachment 88708 [details]
XF86Config for IBM ThinkPad X24 (ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY)
Created attachment 88709 [details]
XFree86 log for IBM ThinkPad X24
I'll have to doublecheck to be sure, but I believe the vesa driver only permits usage of predefined video modes. I don't think you can resize or move the screen around. I'll need to investigate that though. The video card is supported in rawhide XFree86 though, and will be in our next release of Red Hat Linux as well. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74143 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |