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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