Bug 11938
Summary: | Switch to VESA mode hangs on HD4850 | ||
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Product: | Drivers | Reporter: | Arno Wagner (arno) |
Component: | Video(DRI - non Intel) | Assignee: | drivers_video-dri |
Status: | REJECTED UNREPRODUCIBLE | ||
Severity: | high | CC: | akpm, hpa |
Priority: | P1 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Kernel Version: | 2.6.27.4 | Subsystem: | |
Regression: | Yes | Bisected commit-id: |
Description
Arno Wagner
2008-11-01 17:11:14 UTC
eww, ugly. How can something work for two days then magically stop? Perhaps some mysterious hardware failure? The best I can suggest wold be a git bisection search (http://www.kernel.org/doc/local/git-quick.html), which will be fairly painful. Yes, I am quite surprised at this behaviour myself. By now I would agree this could be some obscure hardware problem that does not manifest istelf under XP. Still, with 2.6.19 it works. Some small checking revealed that the oldest kernel I can compile iwith Lenny s 2.6.24.x and there VESA does not work. Anyways, I have the old card in the PC again, this is not urgent at all for me now. Downgrde it to low and leave it here in case somebody else runs into this problem? My old videocard died (8800GTS, likely the bonding-solder problem that Nvidia has, mostly manifested in laptops so far), and I had to install the 4850 again. Could not get VESA in Windows XP either (and hence could not install any drivers). Will RAM the card. So this is a) definitely not a Linux problem and b) likely a problem with this individual card. I am therefore closing the bug. |