From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: When Anaconda detects the graphics chip set on my Geode GX1 based computer for a grahpical install, it selects the MediaGX chipset, instead of the '5530 Video [Kahula]'. This leads to a fatal error. I am given no option to specify the correct driver to the installer, or at least force a VGA compatibility mode. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): core1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run the graphical install on a computer with the National Semi Geode GX1. It has a built in MediaGX type video processor. 2. After it autodetects the video, keyboard, and mouse it tries to start a graphical session but the screen goes blank and seems to crash the system. 3. Additional info: Allow the user the option to manually set the video chipset driver before the graphical install.
Can you provide the output of /sbin/lspci -vn?
00:00.0 Class 0600: 1078:0001 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:0e.0 Class 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10) Subsystem: 10ec:8139 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 15 I/O ports at e000 [size=256] Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: <available only to root> 00:12.0 Class 0601: 1078:0100 (rev 30) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 00:12.1 Class 0680: 1078:0101 Flags: medium devsel Memory at 40012000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] 00:12.2 Class 0101: 1078:0102 (prog-if 80 [Master]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 I/O ports at f000 [size=16] 00:12.3 Class 0401: 1078:0103 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 Memory at 40011000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] 00:12.4 Class 0300: 1078:0104 Subsystem: 1078:0001 Flags: medium devsel Memory at 40800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] 00:13.0 Class 0c03: 0e11:a0f8 (rev 06) (prog-if 10) Subsystem: 0e11:a0f8 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 15 Memory at d0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Cyrix 5530 [Kahlua] is just the name of the 5530 PCI/companion chip on the MediaGX. It is correct detection and should then use the "cyrix" video driver.
Which it does, since 2001. Assuming a X driver problem for now.
Can you please manually try the "nsc" driver, and provide feedback of wether it works or not on this chip? If it does, I can map the "1078:0104:1078:0001" to "nsc", which will hopefully work for everyone out there.
It won't The nsc driver is for VSA2 only. The mediagx driver is for VSA1 and some VSA2. VSA being the virtual system architecture and thus part of the BIOS firmware. There is a procedure for detecting VSA1 or VSA2 but it is not PCI layer instead its a serious of I/O operations akin to the vga "guess the video card" stuff, although always known safe by the PCI id
Flagging as FC3Target and taking assignment.
Tracker filed in X.Org upstream bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2737 Setting status to "UPSTREAM"