Description of problem: system-config-display can no longer configure my video card or start X Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-display-1.0.37-2 How reproducible: Failed during FC5 new installation and twice more afterward. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run it from console to try to configure X for first time - with no xorg.conf 2. 3. Actual results: # system-config-display xconf.py: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :17.0. [root@datant ~] # Window manager error: Unable to open X display :17.0 Expected results: A working xorg.conf and working X. Additional info: 1) It used to work. 2) If I retrieve xorg.conf from FC4 backup, X starts perfectly. 3) The video card is reported by lspci thusly: 00:11.0 VGA compatible controller: NVidia / SGS Thomson (Joint Venture) Riva128 (rev 10) 4) The old, working xorg.conf file contains: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "RIVA128" EndSection
Actually an nv driver bug, in that it can't do 16bpp, but only 15 or 24.
Reporter, I am sorry, that we have left this bug unnoticed for so long, but could you confirm please, that this bug still could be reproduced with the latest updates?
I am happy to report that the bug is dead with F7 and kernel 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7. I set aside the working /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and then, as root, ran system-config-display. It worked perfectly and created a new xorg.conf file. This is on a very old, very slow 200 MHz Pentium that I rarely use for anything. Now, if you could only speed up the machine... :-) Thanks for the fix.
Cool! Marking WORKSFORME.