Bug 326121

Summary:	sax2: Nvidia driver shows up as vesa in sax2
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Kristian Alvestad <antikristian>
Component:	SaX2	Assignee:	Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	sndirsch
Version:	Beta 3
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Hardware:	i586
OS:	Other
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Description Kristian Alvestad 2007-09-18 17:40:25 UTC

When starting sax2 with "sax2 -m 0=nvidia" the driver name shows up as "vesa" and not nvidia. The xorg.conf file and all the options in sax2 are however correct.
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This is a bit annoying, and caused me not to save the configuration a couple of times. 

To recreate:

Install official driver from Nvidia website
start sax2 with sax2 -m 0=nvidia
choose to change configuration
The driver now shows up as "vesa", while all the options are for the nvidia driver (twinview, noLogo etc.)

Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2007-09-18 17:55:19 UTC

what does "sax2 -p" show you ?

I think this card is like many others set to be configured 
with the vesa driver whereas it was "nv" before. The problem is
we had an automatic mapping from nv to nvidia if the binary
nvidia driver is installed but if the original PCI table set
this card to be configured as vesa this magic doesn't apply

Using the -m 0=nvidia option should allow you to configure
the device but that option is by design evil and shouldn't
be needed

Stefan is there a reason why you changed that many cards to
vesa ? I got tons of reports that we now use vesa and -m 0=nvidia
works for most people

Comment 2 Stefan Dirsch 2007-09-18 18:12:35 UTC

IIRC SaX2 always shows you the default driver to use, no matter which driver you explicitely specify with "-m 0=<driver>". 

Indeed we need to know the output of "sax2 -p". There should be only a very small set of NVIDIA cards, which default to fbdev driver.

Comment 3 Kristian Alvestad 2007-09-18 20:28:14 UTC

sax2 -p 
Chip: 0  is -> VESA Vesa-BIOS Graphics          01:00:0 0x10de 0x0429 AGP vesa

Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2007-09-18 20:48:07 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 300604 ***