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If you choose Unlisted Card --> VGA16 Server you get XFree86-VGA16 Server not available <still>. Granted if you choose Unsupported VGA compatible it will pick VGA16 just fine, but shouldnt both work?
How did you get to this screen? Is this a text mode or GUI install?
That would be text mode.
That would mean it is an Xconfigurator issue.
Xconfigurator doesn't tell the installer what to install.... is it kudzu?
Yes. Do we want the installer to install VGA16 if no X server is specified?b
I think so... but I also have a feeling about this being a Trident card (much reported), so it would know. I think the reporter may just have specified a non-default card during the installation?
Actually, I specified no card. It brings up the list of supported video cards, if I chose unsupported VGA it will install the VGA server. I choose unlisted card and pick VGA server it says VGA16 server not available. This card is not a Trident. I have about 80% Tridents on my network. We affectionately call this a "Chairman Mao VGA card". No markings on the card, no recognizable chip on the card. I could have easily replaced this with a Graphics Blaster but I thought it would be better to continue testing with the existing conditions. Henri
Sounds like a problem in the anaconda code which asks the user for what server to use if none could be probed.
The installer that is currently in CVS tries to run the framebuffer first. If this card is VESA 2 compliant, then the installer should run over the frame buffer. Please reopen if the problem appears in the next release.
This time I have a bit more information. It still doesnt detect the card and when you chose unlisted card --> server vga16 it says again vga server packeage not available. The chip on the video card is a cirrus-logic GD5402-550C-B w/ an AVGA2 bios.
although we don't have a cirrus-logic GD5402-550C-B card in our test lab, tests with other cards that bring up that dialog seem to work better ... "Unlisted Card" is not an option, and choosing "Custom" didn't have this error using one of our "Chairman Mao" cards ... please reopen if you still see this problem in beta2 or later ... thanks for your report
Same problem in beta 2(Florence).
What kind of install are you trying...NFS or cd-rom?
cd-rom. Text -server.
Index: xf86config.py =================================================================== RCS file: /mnt/devel/CVS/anaconda/xf86config.py,v retrieving revision 1.138 diff -u -r1.138 xf86config.py --- xf86config.py 2001/01/19 20:01:25 1.138 +++ xf86config.py 2001/01/22 22:40:11 @@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ # all the straight servers for server in [ "3DLabs", "8514", "FBDev", "I128", "Mach8", "Mach32", "Mach64", "Mono", - "P9000", "S3", "S3V", "SVGA", "W32" ]: + "P9000", "S3", "S3V", "SVGA", "W32", "VGA16" ]: cards["Generic " + server] = { "SERVER" : server, "NAME" : "Generic " + server }
should be fixed in beta3.