Bug 121995 - X Crashes On Startup Inspiron 8000 ATI Rage Mobility M4
Summary: X Crashes On Startup Inspiron 8000 ATI Rage Mobility M4
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-04-29 16:40 UTC by Robert Williams
Modified: 2017-01-11 03:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-10-01 06:28:01 UTC
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Description Robert Williams 2004-04-29 16:40:49 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper: 
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) (KHTML, 
like Gecko) 
 
Description of problem: 
I have the 1600x1200 screen and the ATI Rage Mobility M4 graphics 
card. During the install process on both test2 and test3 I have a 
weird line down the middle of the screen that has garbage in it. 
 
During the reboot after the install the during first-time configure 
the screen is completly messed up. IE three half copies of the screen 
on my monitor. I set my screen resolution to 1600x1200 reboot and X 
won't start. 
 
I manually edited XF86Config to try and use just the vesa driver but 
X still won't boot. 
 
 
How reproducible: 
Always

Comment 1 Robert Williams 2004-04-29 16:54:42 UTC
I had a stupid little mistake in my xorg.conf file i typed in vsea 
not vesa. It work now with using the vesa driver. 

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2004-05-04 17:59:24 UTC
Fedora Core 2 test 3 does not ship with XFree86.  We have replaced
XFree86 with X.org X11 in test2 and later releases.  The new X
server is named "Xorg" and uses the config file /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Please ensure your system is updated to the latest updates from
rawhide, and then attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log logfile and your
xorg.conf config file as individual uncompressed file attachments
using the bugzilla link below, and I will review them for
troubleshooting.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2004-05-04 18:03:52 UTC
I forgot to mention... for the above, first run:

system-config-display --reconfig

Then startx with the generated config file.

Comment 4 Richard Hoelscher 2004-05-10 19:44:32 UTC
I'm also seeing this problem. (Dell Inspiron 8000, ATI Rage Mobility 
M4, 1600x1200)... From the 'hardware' section of the display tool, I 
have "Dell 1600x1200 Laptop Display Panel" selected.

To fix, I had to go into xorg.conf, and uncomment the lines 
after "### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC":
HorizSync 31.5 - 90
VertRefresh 59.0 - 85.0

After that, it worked fine.

Comment 5 Jason Perkins 2004-05-20 20:25:18 UTC
I had the same problem...I fixed it by manually changing the color
depth from 24 to 16. Now running fine at 1400x1050.

Comment 6 Linh Giang 2004-09-21 02:15:07 UTC
Still having problem.

I looked into the xorg.conf, but couldn't find "Uncomment if you don't
wan tto default to DDC" line.

Reducing color depth from 24 to 16 works, but I prefer keeping at 24.
I work extensively with graphics.



Comment 7 Mike A. Harris 2004-10-01 06:28:01 UTC
This issue was resolved in the final release of Fedora Core 2.

Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE"


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