Bug 72451 - Installer detects video card, but assigns vesa driver
Summary: Installer detects video card, but assigns vesa driver
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: null
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-23 21:56 UTC by Hamilton Leeper
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-08-26 20:40:19 UTC
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Description Hamilton Leeper 2002-08-23 21:56:04 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809

Description of problem:
On my geforce 4 ti4600 machine, the installer detected it as such, but assigned
the driver "vesa" instead of "nv," causing X to never start.  I had to edit
XF86Config by hand.  Also, my moniter (ViewSonic A70f) wasn't detected properly
- I had to assign the hsync and vsync values by hand.  Perhaps the vesa driver
was assigned becuase it showed "unprobed moniter?"

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How reproducible:
Didn't try


Additional info:
Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-26 20:40:13 UTC 
Mike do we not specify the 'nv' driver for this particular card?
Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2002-11-03 11:44:59 UTC 
No, the "nv" driver does not support GeForce 4 officially.  The "vesa"
driver is correct (although it is unsupported also, since bugs occuring
while using it are hardware BIOS bugs generally).

The GF4 hardware won't be supported officially until XFree86 4.3.0, of
which I've got CVS build rpm's in rawhide real soon.

Closing bug NOTABUG as "vesa" is very intentional.
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