Bug 77674
Summary: | no warning for ancient graphics card | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Brian McMinn <nobsod> |
Component: | redhat-config-xfree86 | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
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: | 2003-04-25 15:56:33 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Brian McMinn
2002-11-11 21:40:05 UTC
Do you happen to know if the installer fell back to the VESA driver to get the graphical installation running, or did it use the native driver? XFree86 3.x is not present in Red Hat Linux 8.0, so the installer never tries to use it. I'm not familiar enough with the difference between VESA mode and the native driver to answer that. If VESA mode is a clunky looking text window like soundcfg (sndconfig?) used to use then that's not what I saw. The install screen was made of "real" graphics. I have replaced the card but have not yet thrown it away. If the mode visible before the disk gets partitioned, I can swap cards and run the install up to the point where I could answer this question (assuming you can describe what you need to know). I do recall that the install "clunked" the monitor once just before it went into graphics mode. By "clunked" I mean that the screen went blank and the monitor made a sound similar to a relay switching before the graphical mode began. The Virge I have works - I'm not sure what we can do differently with cards that support is slowly disappearing for. This would be a redhat-config-xfree86 issue however. I am confused as to why the X server would work for the installer but then not work after installation. If Virge that we have works, I'm not sure exactly what we can do about this bug. It's possible that the more recent X versions support some Virges but not others, and I'm not sure if there's a way for us to know which ones will work and which won't. :( Resolving as 'wontfix'. I don't know what else I can do. |