Created attachment 333885 [details] sosreport Description of problem: Customer is the hardware vendor, reporting problem with detection of his VGA chipset in RHEL5. The VGA chipset is detected as below with pci id 1a03:2000. 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. AST2000 (rev 10) After fresh installation of RHEL5 system, VESA driver is selected for VGA card. Using system-config-display to select proper driver after installation works fine. Where as RHEL4.7 gets installed properly with AST as default driver. Also Fedora-10 system detects the hardware correctly during installation. Customer wants RHEL5 to detect the hardware correctly and use AST as default driver for his card instead of VESA Customer also wishes to upgrade the driver version of AST shipped in RHEL5. The driver version of build-in "ast" driver is v.0.81, it's released about two years ago and they had found some issues during this period. They hope it can be upgraded to the latest one on XORG http://www.aspeedtech.com/support.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 5.3 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start X11 2. 3. Actual results: driver does not detect VGA card Expected results: driver should detect this card Additional info:
Created attachment 333886 [details] 20-log.tar
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Moving to 5.5
Build xorg-x11-drv-ast-0.89.9-1.el5 MODIFIED
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Hi, 1. The driver had been updated to 0.89.9. 2. The default driver is still 'vesa' not 'ast' as we expected. Regards, Y.C. Chen
Hi sir, Did anyone have any update about the default driver issue? Regards, Y.C. Chen
Hi Chris, Our customers have wait this issue for almost one year and this issue still didn't be fixed completely. This issue is very important to us, could you help us to fix it in 5.5? Regards, Y.C. Chen
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2010-0202.html