Bug Day 9 : Dec 10, 2003

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:58:47 -0500, Jef Spaleta wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks for reporting back. I deliberately posted only to -devel-list
> initially in the hopes that a few technically proficient would make an
> attempt at testing and find some rather obvious short-comings to the
> very ill-defined testing idea, before I encourage testing in the larger
> volume lists.
> 
> Can you do some testing with startx. I don't think the 'safe mode'
> mharris is envisioning is going to require gdm to run for the purpose
> its going to serve. But I need to poke him the eye about that
> specifically. Knowing if the problem is gdm specific would help me
> evaluate what any sort of 'safe mode' functionality would encompass.
> 
> So please run a vesa test again using startx from runlevel 3 and try to
> get into a failsafe X session or a twm managed X session.  Maybe try to
> run a few obvious redhat-config* tools that you would expect to be
> useful if your X session wasn't working and X tries to restart in a
> 'safe mode.' 

No problems whatsoever with twm or WindowMaker and VESA modes.  Only the
chosen fonts are quite ugly (in both 1024x768 and 800x600).

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