From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: If I try and install (null) on a machine with a DVI based flatpanel monitor connected to a Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti200 the monitor is undetected and the graphical install fails to display. Even worse if I install in text mode and then later try and run X it appears that it trys to auto detect my monitor which fails and never displays. Even if I hardcode or select Dell FP7200 Digital during install Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot into graphical install. 2.Fails to detect DVI monitor 3.Blank screen Actual Results: got a blank screen Expected Results: should have detected DVI monitor Additional info:
We do not currently have any code which can detect these types of monitors. Assigning to XFree86 since it had problems even in manual configuration.
XFree86 4.2 doesn't have support for the DVI output on the GeForces 3 Ti's, but the support is in CVS. There was also a patch posted to the XPert list to add support (it was intended for Macs I think, but it works on x86 boxes too). I have a slightly hacked version of the patch (some cosmetic changes removed) which applies against Red Hat's XFree86-4.2.0-8 and which I have running on production machines. Ok, I found the URL for the patch against XFree86 4.2.0: http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-April/016962.html
Created attachment 73924 [details] My modified version of the nv-dfp patch, against XFree86 4.2.0-8
I believe the attachment should be able to apply cleanly to XFree86-4.2.0-67.6. (More precisely, I believe it should be relatively easy to integrate this patch into the XFree86 RPMs, if Red Hat wishes to do that. I have not tried building modified XFree86-4.2.0-67.6 RPMs yet, however.)
As noted above, XFree86 4.2.0 does not support DVI output on Nvidia hardware. As such this is not a bug, but rather just a hardware feature which is not supported. The CVS development Nvidia code is not considered clean to apply to a stable build at this point in time. This support will have to wait until XFree86 4.3.0 is released and integrated into Red Hat Linux. Closing bug as NOTABUG