From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: The card used to work fine till the version 6.3 of Linux but from 7.0 onwards it is difficult to configure it at colour depths above 8 bit and if it does happen then the colour spills over at 16bit( excess of yellow) and in 24 bit the display becomes garbled at teh area of activity on the screen the monitor used is Viewsonic E-40. A number of others with the same card have reported the prob;em too. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run setup at the command prompt and configure the video card with auto probe and specify monitor type 2 select the colour depth of 24 bit /16 bit and the display will be configured but it will be gharbled when actually used by logging in to Gnome. 3. Actual Results: The card could not be configured Expected Results: The sard should have been configured at 16 bit at a resolution of 800*600 as it used to in the 6.3 version of Linux Additional info:
We have never shipped a version 6.3 of Red Hat Linux. If you are using a version 6.3, it is definitely not Red Hat Linux. In order to investigate this, I will need to know exactly what video hardware you have. There are too many brand names to know what all chipsets they use. Please attach a copy of your XFree86 server logs and configuration file as uncompressed file attachments using the link below and I will see if I can help you. Thanks
Sir I apologise for a mistake on my part and it was the incorrect mention of the earlier version of Redhat Linux and it should rather be versions 6.0,6.1&6.2,actually the original configuration of teh PC carried the SIS 6326 graphics card which did not find supprot in Linux (redhat) 6.0 so i changed it to Graphics Blaster exxtreme manufactured by Creative labs wit h4 MB of video RAM and the chipset detected by probe is PErmedia2(glint). In fact during the past 3 hours or so the problem assumed such proportions that i had to remove version 7.1 from my system and downgrade it to 6.0 so the log report of 7.1 would not be possible for now but if it cannot be dispensed with then i will once again install and generate the report. And if the 6.0 log can serve teh purpose then please tell the procedure of generating such a report. The problem became so severe that the system started to go into suspend mode without any prior warning, so had to take teh extreme step.
Sir the problem mentioned above could be solved by selecting the generic driver (3D labs)for the graphics card during the installation in low resoluton mode, so the solution may be archived for further queries in the same context Sudhendu
This problem with the permedia chips I believe should be fixed in XFree86 4.0.3-24 at: ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/7.1 Please try it, and update the report to reflect the results.
Resolving bug assuming it is fixed due to lack of feedback, and no bad reports coming in from anyone else. XFree86-4.1.0-3 is the current release.