Bug 147212

Summary:	Missing VBEModes option for VIA graphics card
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Felix Rommel <felix.rommel>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SUSE Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	My xorg.conf file My Xorg.0.log file Output of lspci -v Output of hwinfo --gfx Output of hwinfo --monitor

Description Felix Rommel 2006-02-01 09:54:55 UTC

I have an Acer Aspire 1353LC notebook with a S3 unichrome graphic card.

With SUSE 10.1 Beta2 YaST chooses "via" as driver for my card which will cause a "black screen of death" where I don't see anything any more.

The trick is to add the following option to the xorg.conf:

Option "VBEModes" "true"

This is the only working thing! You should add this as default - or give a hint for the user to switch it on. But default is better cause it's too complex for new users to add an extra parameter without knowing which one to choose.

It took me maaany hours to find that thing out... :(

I attach all relevant files.

Comment 1 Felix Rommel 2006-02-01 09:56:22 UTC

Created attachment 65988 [details]
My xorg.conf file

My xorg.conf file with the eabled "VBEModes" option in the section "Device"

Comment 2 Felix Rommel 2006-02-01 09:58:06 UTC

Created attachment 65989 [details]
My Xorg.0.log file

Comment 3 Felix Rommel 2006-02-01 10:00:22 UTC

Created attachment 65990 [details]
Output of lspci -v

Comment 4 Felix Rommel 2006-02-01 10:05:56 UTC

Created attachment 65994 [details]
Output of hwinfo --gfx

Comment 5 Felix Rommel 2006-02-01 10:10:56 UTC

Created attachment 65995 [details]
Output of hwinfo --monitor

Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2006-02-01 15:47:49 UTC

(II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 1106,7205 card 1025,0033 rev 01 class 03,00,00 hdr 00

Comment 7 Stefan Dirsch 2006-02-01 16:38:33 UTC

Thanks. Fixed for Beta4.