Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 40169
(SiS 530) XFree86 misrendering and wrong modes
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:10 EDT
Doing a graphical install on a SIS530 integrated mainboard works up to a point then it starts rendering some white areas as black making it kind of tricky to work with. Ive not seen this after install which is odd ? The beta X server was ok minus the fact scrolling occasionalyl corrupted the cursor Secondly the display height is too large. On my generic 640x480 vga dislay the picture goes over the top and bottom. Other cards seem to be ok suggesting a card/table problem.
Created attachment 18067 [details] lspci for the machine
Can you attach a server log + config file? Probably using a bad modeline for your monitor. xvidtune will likely help configure a working mode for you if you cant get X to sanely do so itself. If you generate a working modeline, attach it and I'll see if I can get it into either X or Xconfigurator. If 4.0.3-5 or 4.0.3-14 works well with the card though, let me know since we'll be dropping 3.3.6 most likely in the not distant future and theres no use fiddling with 3.3.6 if it can be avoided by using 4.x. The installer will likely use 4.x FBdev for installation in our next release whereas it uses 3.3.x for some reason in 7.0/7.1 Me and msf need to talk about this...
Does this mean that the MediaGX, S3 968, S3 Trio and Imagine 128 etc servers are now finally ported over.. that would be great news I've attached the XF86Config. It looks right. Its just the display isnt. Dunno if its just crap cards or what.
Created attachment 18188 [details] SIS XF86config
S3 drivers are indeed being ported finally. A fellow named Ani Joshi is doing S3 work. If you have, or can obtain hardware, Ani is willing to port the stuff. He's already got 968 and Trio working I believe. I'll have to check it out again prior to our next release. 3.3.6 will be here as long as it is needed though. I think a lot of what needs to be done will be done in a year, so probably around the time XFree 4.2.x is out, we may no longer need 3.3.6. I need your X server log to go with the config still... Also, I've got a pending errata release ready for 3.3.6. Currently it is the 3.3.6-38 rpm's on porky (and people.redhat.com/mharris/testing). If you try them, please let me know any good/bad changes. In particular there are numerous major updates to the S3 drivers, including the cards you have mentioned. TTYL
I can try them on the SiS and the Cyrix MediaGX. I think my S3 card went out in a server to someone though
This should all be fixed / workedaround in rawhide currently and current beta's. The solution is in the hwdatabase Cards file, which disables the faulty hardware cursor using Option "swcursor". I'm setting the bug report to MODIFIED. If you can test and confirm, then set to RAWHIDE if it is ok (which it should be now), or reopen for tweaking with XaaNo options.. TIA