Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 27936
X11 failure on a SGI 1200 box with GD5480
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:31 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) I've got a SGI 1200 machine with a Cirrus Logic GD5480 video card. When I load fisher on it, all my windows end up with transparent backgrounds and window erase functions don't work. As the window 'scrolls' it just writes on top of the existing data. Not useful at all. 7.0 loads and runs just fine on it, and it detects and configures the same devices. It looks like fisher is trying to run v4 drivers and 7.0 is loading v3 drivers. Is there a way to force the installer or Xconfigurator to use v3 or v4? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just run Xconfigurator on SGI 1200 box with Cirrus Logic GD5480 video card 2. 3. Actual Results: transparent windows, clear doesn't work, reset doesn't clear screen
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.
Contrary to original statement - XFree86 v4 was also being used on Redhat 7.0. So the server is working ok on this box with guinness and it is failing with fisher. Using XFree86_SVGA v3 server with fisher doesn't fix the problem either.
It would appear that the wolverine release did not resolve this problem. I upgraded the failing box with the new XFree86 packages from wolverine and saw no change in behavior. ( I was unable to do a full reload because of kernel driver problems-- yet another defect report.)
Please provide your Xserver logs and XF86config-4 files as bug attachments from the server you are having problems with. Also, try with the "no_accel" option.
our test box with a GD5480 works here with both drivers...Mike, please try and determine what has changed in this driver since 7.0. It could be a compiler issue if you find nothing.
I thought I added a comment earlier, but its not here so one more time... In trying to get the log files, I reran Xconfigurator. after doing that the problem went away. I believe I didn't rerun Xconfigurator after upgrading to wolverine, so it looks like this is fixed with wolverine.
Ok, it looks like you got it going ok now. Can you confirm this works ok, so I can close the bug? TIA
confirmed - fixed in 2nd beta.