Bug 2982

Summary: VESA driver doesn't work on K8M800, Athlon64
Product: xorg Reporter: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component: Driver/VesaAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: libv
Version: 6.8.2   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Bill Nottingham 2005-04-11 12:52:10 UTC 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145200

S3 Unichrome Pro (K8M800), Athlon64.

Using VESA b/c native doesn't work.

The VESA driver doesn't work with a 64-bit kernel;
neither the 64-bit VESA driver, nor the 32-bit VESA
driver (run in a chroot).

It does work on the same box with a full 32bit install (with a 32bit
kernel).

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

xorg-x11-6.8.1 through 6.8.2.

Log of the 64-bit X startup is at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=109814

Log of a working 32-bit X startup is at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=109815

Logs are from 6.8.1, but 6.8.2 behaves identically.
Comment 1 Keith Distin 2005-04-16 05:28:13 UTC 
I thought I also had this bug. Using a Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M on which I've
updated the BIOS to the latest version (F5), the VESA
driver failed.  I borrowed a graphics card from another machine and installed
FC3, however on rebooting the kernel wouldn't load - I got a crc error.  This
led me to  do some hardware investigations.

To cut a long story short the motherboard was incorrectly identifying my CL3
memory as CL2.5 so I changed this manually in the BIOS settings.  I can now
install FC3 - the generic VESA driver works - and the new installation boots
properly.

This may not be a bug at all!
Comment 2 eric 2006-01-28 10:30:21 UTC 
Created attachment 4494 [details]
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Comment 3 eric 2006-01-28 10:36:37 UTC 
Comment on attachment 4494 [details]
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failed on the lastest Fedora Core development build x86_64 (FC5 dated 1.27.06)
and SuSE Factory distribution build (ver 10.1 beta2 dated 1.27.06). The 32bit
build is working for both distributions.
Comment 4 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:26:13 UTC 
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 5 chemtech 2013-03-15 14:32:27 UTC 
Bill Nottingham
Do you still experience this issue with newer soft ?
Please check the status of your issue.
Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2013-03-15 19:06:59 UTC 
Sorry, I've since retired the box.
Comment 7 Adam Jackson 2014-03-21 17:26:34 UTC 
Ancient bug, closing.  If anyone's still seeing this please reopen.

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