Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 70745
wrong driver for Miro 20 SV (VGA)
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:45:13 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 Description of problem: You show "Miro 20 SV" in the list of graphics card to choose from and use the s3 driver upon selection. This will freeze the machine because Miro 20 SV is not supported by XFree 4.2 (only 3.3.6). Please change the associated driver of Miro 20 SV to "vesa" or delete the entry. Even better would be to install 3.3.6. :-) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use Miro 20 SV 2. select it 3. freeze Actual Results: Freeze of the machine during X start (either "firstboot" or "startx"). Expected Results: correct X Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70743 ***
No, I dont think this is a duplicate of 70743 (Both bugs are reported by me). THIS bug (#70745) deals with anaconda telling the user, that there is support for MIRO 20 SV and allows to select this card. In fact there is NO support for Miro 20 SV in XFree 4.2 (only 3.3.6), so you should not show Miro 20 SV in anaconda at all (or change the associated driver to "vesa"). Bug #70743 deals with redhat-config-xfree86 where Miro 20 SV is not detected propertly and therefore redhat-config-xfree86 crashes and is not able to present a standard "vesa/vga" GUI. Please reopen and change the anaconda entry of Miro 20 SV to "vesa". If you leave it as is, then selection of Miro 20 SV will crash the machine.
Anaconda has nothing whatsoever to do with the linkage between a video card and a specific driver. The hardware database (hwdata) defines that linkage. This bug _is_ a dupe.