Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 18845
Xconfigurator --expert does not accept specified card
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:29:13 EDT
Xconfigurator --expert does not accept the specified video card. If you check the configuration file, it defaults back to the card that was originally probed.
I've done some kicking on Xconfigurator last night. It looks like it is taking the card selected in --expert but it is using the name that it found in the autoprobe for the Device string in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file it writes out.. I also discovered that if the --card "cardname" option is used, Xconfgiurator uses "My Video Card" for the Device. Oh, and the custom monitor screen's custom sync subscreen doesn't have any sanity checking. Things like "Bill", "bob", "whosymomma" and "johnboy!" are passed right through to the config file ;) It does, however, still ask about probing for screen resolutions. Using --monitor "monitor name" doesn't seem to have any effect. The monitor selection screen is still put up and the entries given there override the monitor supplied on the command line. Command lines used to test this: Xconfigurator --monitor "ViewSonic G773" --card "ATI Rage 128" Xconfigurator --monitor "COMPAQ V900 Color Monitor" --card "Cirrus Logic GD542x" Xconfigurator --monitor "Samtron SC-728FXL" --card "Hercules Dynamite 128/Video" Xconfigurator --expert In the last case, I selected a Cirrus Logic card and Cirrus Logic settings were written to the XF86Config: # Device configured by Xconfigurator: Section "Device" Identifier "3Dfx Interactive, Inc.|Voodoo 3" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" #VideoRam 16384 # Use Option "no_bitblt" if you have graphics problems. If that fails # try Option "noaccel". # Refer to /usr/X11R6/lib/doc/README.cirrus. # To allow linear addressing, uncomment the Option line and the # address that the card maps the framebuffer to. # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection
It also doesn't correct the symlink for /etc/X11/X to the correct XF86_XXXX server (when used to configure 3.3.6).
If you enter a bad syncrange, like "bob" you get what you are asking for. That's not a bug. "--card" and "--monitor" are kickstart-only arguments. Not a bug. I'll look into the other issues.
Fixed in CVS. Will eventually be 4.4.4 or higher
I am having a trouble with my video card which is Trident975. Whenever I select the modes of the card ( 256colors, or 16 bit or 24 bit), i can't keep going over that point. There has been always an error comes up on the screen saying that I might have the problem with the xconfiguration setting and let me to go back to the previous menus.
If so, please submit a separate bug on that.
During installation I noticed that my video card was found. During Xconfig when it got to the section about a Monitor, nothing i do here seems to work. So I skiped the X test hopeing that it was ok to do so. I got the ensurance that I had finished the setup. When I try to run the program it will start loading Linux but stop because of an "Error 0x10" and would try loading again. What did I do worng. Derrick H.
I like to thank you for your quick response to my problem. I am sorry if I sound stupid but I have no idea what you anr talkin about. I am very new at this Linux thing ( 1st time install) Do I need to reinstall program? change mointor? What does this mean in dumb laymen terms "Xconfigurator --expert does not accept the specified video card. If you @@ -87,3 +87,13 @@" please explain!