Bug Day 9 : Dec 10, 2003 : No more running with scissors, let's play in a safe mode.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:13:48 -0500, Jef Spaleta wrote:

> 
> Bug Day Theme:
> Vesa Driver Testing for use as an Xfree 'safe mode' option.
> 
> Mike Harris has asked for testing of the Vesa video driver, which
> could be used for a "safe mode" in Fedora.  The problem is that many
> BIOS's Vesa modes are broken, so he needs a good blacklist of broken
> situations with the Vesa driver.
> 
> Testing a card for use with the Vesa driver involves reconfiguring the
> X config(this will most likely have to be done by hand editting the
> config file, i don't know if r-c-xfree86 can be used for this, I'm sure
> someone will tell me if it can)

This one? redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig --set-driver=vesa

Creates a highly unstable 800x600 VESA mode on my Matrox Millennium
G400. Already the graphical greeter keeps crashing upon every 2nd server
restart.

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