Bug 70462 - no support for GeForce 4
Summary: no support for GeForce 4
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: redhat-config-xfree86
Version: limbo
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Alexander Larsson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-01 16:24 UTC by Thomas Schuett
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-08-01 16:24:53 UTC
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Description Thomas Schuett 2002-08-01 16:24:47 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020712

Description of problem:
in /etx/X11/XF86Config

the installer creates a "vesa" driver when choosing "GeForce 4" Chipset instead
of creating the following:

----snip

Section "Device"
        # no known options
        Identifier   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
        Driver       "nv"
        VendorName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
        BoardName     "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
        Chipset "GeForce3"
        #BusID
EndSection



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start rh xf86 config tool
2. select GeForce 4 Chipset
3. let it create a config...
	

Actual Results:  higer resolutions do not work

Additional info:
Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-08-01 23:13:48 UTC 
That is correct, because all GeForce 4 cards are unsupported.
XFree86 4.3.0 when released will support GeForce 4, but the nv
driver does not support it currently, so this is not a bug.
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