Bug 21661

Summary:	vesa driver doesn't find emulated graphics card in kvm-84
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Sascha Silbe <sascha-web-bugs.freedesktop.org>
Component:	Driver/Vesa	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Sascha Silbe 2009-05-10 11:27:01 UTC

Recently the Xorg vesa driver stopped working in Ubuntu Jaunty [1] and Fedora Rawhide [2] when run inside kvm-84. Because it got broken in both, I'm guessing it's actually an Xorg bug.

The most interesting non-debug lines in Xorg.0.log are:

(II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
(EE) No devices detected.


The versions of the vesa driver are 2.2.0-3.fc11 for Fedora and 2.0.0-1ubuntu6 for Ubuntu Jaunty.
See the Ubuntu bug [1] for complete Xorg.0.log files before and after the breakage.

kvm-85 has been reported to work better for some users, but is not available in Debian experimental yet (so I cannot verify easily).


[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-vesa/+bug/356133
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500057

Comment 1 Sascha Silbe 2009-05-30 07:27:51 UTC

For kvm-85, it works on Ubuntu Jaunty (2.0.0-1ubuntu6), but not on Fedora (2.2.0-3.fc11).

Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2014-04-08 14:11:16 UTC

kvm bug for not setting the device class up properly, closing.

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