Bug 26453 - Testing X configuration fails erroneously
Summary: Testing X configuration fails erroneously
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard: Florence Gold
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-07 12:12 UTC by Phil Venton
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Environment:
Last Closed: 2001-02-16 17:04:58 UTC
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Description Phil Venton 2001-02-07 12:12:46 UTC
Hardware:
Dual P-II 400, on QDI BrilliantIV (440BX, BIOS version 3 beta)
Diamond V770 Ultra (TNT2 ultra chipset)
Samsung SL900+ (using probed DDC syncs)
256megs RAM
6 Gig Maxtor over UDMA/33 on /dev/hdc
USB mouse (Razer Boomslang 2K)

Install parameters:
Custom install, all packages.
Automatic partitioning
X selected at 1280x1024, 24 bit.
Dual-booting with Win2K (on /dev/hda1, whole disk)

Testing the X config fails with "Explicit kill or server shutdown".
However, the resulting XF86Config-4 file is perfect, and startx (or booting
to init 5) works flawlessly post-install.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-02-07 16:27:32 UTC
Assigning to a developer.

Comment 2 Phil Venton 2001-02-07 17:44:45 UTC
I should also mention, in case it is relevant:

The V770 has 32 megs video RAM, but anaconda detected it as 16.  I changed it to
32 from the dropdown.

I will hammer on this with some other settings when I have free time, and see
what the reproducable envelope is.


Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-02-07 18:28:47 UTC
Can you go to VC2, run ddcprobe, and post the output?  That way we can tell how
much memory the card thinks it has.

Comment 4 Glen Foster 2001-02-08 16:01:06 UTC
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2001-02-09 18:04:27 UTC
You might also want to look at /tmp/XF86Config-4 (or whatever it's called after
clicking on the test button, to see what the differences are between that and
the installed Xconfigurator config file.

Comment 6 Brent Fox 2001-02-16 17:04:54 UTC
We think this has been fixed in the latest internal builds.  There was a problem
in the way we were handling memory.  Basically, testing X caused a spike in
memory usage, and the kernel was killing the X process because it thought it had
run out of memory.  Please reopen if the problem persists.


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