Description of Problem: I installed RH 7.3 on my Pentium 233 PC and the setup went fine. Once the PC rebooted, I logged on as root and ran 'startx'. Xserver claimed to not be configured, so I ran XConfigurator. The initial screen came up and when I hit enter, the blue background remained for about 30 seconds and then I was dropped back out to my command line prompt. Above the prompt, there were two words on the screen, "Segmentation fault." That was the only "error message" I recieved. Still, I cannot run X. I have tried rebooting and also re-installing and still have the same problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Unsure. How Reproducible: Every time I try to run XConfigurator. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Installed RH7.3 on a Compaq Presario 4808 (Intel Pentium 233). 2. After system reboots to the text login (default), logged in as root. 3. Ran XConfigurator Actual Results: Initial screen displays until <Enter> key is pressed. Once <Enter> is pressed, drops back to the prompt and displays "Segmentation fault" one line above the prompt. Screen background stays blue. Expected Results: To be able to completely configure my video card, monitor, screen colors and resolution. Additional Information: Downloaded the ISO images from a mirror site (ftp.ttu.edu). md5 checksum was valid for each of the ISO images. Burned the ISO images to CDs. Booted from Disc 1 and ran 'linux mediacheck' and all 3 CDs passed. Installed RH7.3 the first time in normal mode (GUI) and the second time in text mode. According to the installation program, everything installed fine (I selected "Everything" in the "Packages to Install" screen). My PC has a 20 gig hard drive and 12 gig of it is used for the Linux installation.
You haven't indicated what video card you have. Please provide that, as well as the output of: lspci -n
Please attach the information that has been requested, or there is nothing that can be done about your bug report. Xconfigurator works fine, so if it does not work for you, then it is something hardware specific, and I do not know what video hardware you have.
Same problem here. Pentium 200 mmx. The video card is a S3 Trio64V2/DX. During the installation the card is configured properly, identified as a Trio64V (generic) But after installation X wont work, displaying the message "display driver is not found". Runnig Xconfigurator get a Segmentation Fault, after the presentation screen. Note: With Redhat 7.2 it was working properly.
Here is lspci -n 00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:1595 (rev 03) 00:02.0 Class 0200: 10b7:9050 00:03.0 Class 0200: 10b7:9050 00:04.0 Class 0200: 10b7:9050 00:07.0 Class 0601: 1106:0586 (rev 31) 00:07.1 Class 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06) 00:07.2 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 02) 00:07.3 Class 0000: 1106:3040 00:0f.0 Class 0300: 5333:8901 (rev 16) And cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C595/97 [Apollo VP2/97] (rev 3). Master Capable. Latency=8. Bus 0, device 2, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] (rev 0). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8. I/O at 0x1480 [0x14bf]. Bus 0, device 3, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] (#2) (rev 0). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8. I/O at 0x14c0 [0x14ff]. Bus 0, device 4, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] (#3) (rev 0). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8. I/O at 0x1440 [0x147f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA [Apollo VP] (rev 49). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6). Master Capable. Latency=66. I/O at 0x1400 [0x140f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 2: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 2). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=66. I/O at 0x1420 [0x143f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: Non-VGA unclassified device: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B ACPI (rev 0). I/O at 0x1000 [0x10ff]. Bus 0, device 15, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio 64V2/DX or /GX (rev 22). IRQ 11. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x40000000 [0x43ffffff].
Does this still occur with the current Red Hat "Limbo" beta release? There have been some bug fixes and other changes. Please let me know as soon as possible.
This problem is similar in nature to a number of problems on S3 hardware that have been reported. It is due to some infrastructure changes in the distro WRT XFree86, which required Xconfigurator changes also but which were not realized during development and beta testing, and nobody reported any problems until the distro was already released. There are no plans to fix these problems in Xconfigurator now, as it affects few users only, and there are wokrarounds that are simple enough to endure. I'm closing this as a duplicate of another similar problem, you may want to overview the duplicate bug report for more information also.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64544 ***