Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 12217
Xconfigurator still gives wrong values for Cyrix
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:56 EDT
See bug #7551. I have not added a comment to that because I can't change the version to Winston beta, and if I set it to beta-team only, anyone hunting correct Cyrix values won't be able to see them any more. Xconfigurator still attempts to persuade me that my Cyrix MediaGX attached to a Sony CPD-110EST can perform the miracle of 1280x1024x8bit. It can't. The best it can achieve is 1024x768. Now, however, when I tell it to use up to 1024x768 for eight-bit and 16-bit and nothing for 24-bit, in the Winston beta, it tells me, "There is a problem with your X configuration. You may go back and modify values or quit now."
Please test this with beta3?
Still breaks, but differently. (a) Selecting MediaGX in XConfigurator blows XConfigurator up. It's looking for ../../usr/X11R6/bin/SVGA. It should look for ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. A temporary fix is to symlink them. (b) Still suggests values of 1280x1024x8bit. Cyrix MediaGX can't do that. (c) Allows you to tell it values up to and including 1024x768 for 8 and 16-bit and accepts them: runs the test, the test works, and then it writes values to the XF86Config which are all wrong. Running startx after it worked once (by lucky chance a modeline for 640x480 worked). I tried tinkering with the file, got lots of funky errors, then put the original file back and X still wouldn't work. So I don't get the "There is a problem with your X configuration" message, but the results are still pretty bad. Sorry.
Created attachment 1207 [details] Bad XF86Config generated by Xconfigurator for Cyrix MediaGX
Further investigation: 'startx' and 'startx -- -bpp 8' work: I get a 640x480 display, but it works. 'startx -- -bpp 16' produces the machine hang. Offending XF86Config attached.
Weird. Please test the Xconfigurator shipped with beta4 and update the info.
Please test beta 5 and update info.
Still broken. In fact quite obviously nobody has made any attempt to fix this. Its not hard If they select MediaGX (which btw should be listed as Cyrix MediaGX for consistency) Do not offer 1280x1024 Generate the mode lines differently. The 2nd value of the X is always 16+ the first, the rest are unchanged. Its only been broken since about 5.0 and it isnt hard to fix The machine hang is fixed in pinstripe, and replaced by an X rendering bug instead. That will get filed seperately as an X11 bug.
Okay, now I start it, it still says, "Ooh, a Cyrix" and suggests the wrong values. When I refuse to accept them and tell it all resolutions up to 1024x768 for both 8 and 16 bpp, it says 'okay', survives the test, tells me it worked and then I startx and get 640x480 again. It doesn't seem to be crashing yet, though.
I haven't tried any specific fixes due to lack of hardware (we only have a non-working one). When it comes to offering 1280x1024, that's not going to be solved - the current Xconfigurator does not have an infrastructure to add this (which is also a problem with laptops with LCD displays). It will be fixed in the upcoming from-scratch rewrite (at least, it is on my list of things I want in there - I want to have an intersection of possible values for card and monitor). The modeline problem: Take e.g. Modeline "1024x768" 85 1024 1032 1152 1360 768 784 787 823 Are you saying that what you want is: Modeline "1024x768" 85 1024 1040 1152 1360 768 784 787 823 Will that affect others in a bad way? (iow: time to add yet another "if" case for Xconfigurator?) BTW: Does it work with any XFree 4 driver?
Modeline problem: You have this right yes, and its MediaGX specific. Basically you read A B C D from the reference mode dbase and output A A+16 C D for a Cyrix MediaGX based chip. Probably you need another skeleton modedb file solely for this annoying chip.
These lines are hardcoded in Xconfigurator - will fixing this modeline only fix it, or do all modelines have to be exactly this way for MediaGX?
The MediaGX needs all its usable modelines this way. (640->1024 only need doing). The MediaGX fixed lines naturally dont work on non MediaGX 8) If time is short then just fixing a few 800x600 and 1024x768 entries should at least get people up and running
Try Xconfigurator 4.3.38 from http://people.redhat.com/teg/xc/ - the modelines should say they are specific to MediaGX. If that doesn't happen or the modelines are wrong, reopen - the latter with proper modelines.