Bug 16338

Summary:	testing graphics settings via drakx11 broken
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jan Merta <lunruj>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	journalctl output from an attempt to run drakx11 graphics test

Description Jan Merta 2015-07-10 02:18:10 CEST

Description of problem:
Drakx11 tool to test graphics settings doesn't work. Instead of showing test screen asking whether it's a correct settings and alternatively if the settings is bad returning to old setting after timeout, it just stays in text regime. Trying to launch it in text regime, it returns:

An error ocurred:
(EE)
Fatal server error:

Try to change some parameters

The error occurs even when testing with clearly working graphic settings.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go into drax11
2. change graphics settings or just leave current settings
3. use "Test" option


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2015-07-11 08:18:02 CEST

Confirming it's also broken in Mageia 5 on a 32bit system (last time updated yesterday) with the following video card:

Card:SiS old series-based cards: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]|661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1039 device:6330 subv:17aa subd:100a)

_Not_ changing any setting in XFdrake, and then hitting the test button, results in a hard freeze: even the Alt+SysRq keycombinations no longer work

@ Jan

Please give the output of 

   lspcidrakde -v | grep Card

Also, please run (as root)

  journalctl -f 2>&1 | tee journalctl-f.txt

then test again

and attach journalctl-f.txt to this report

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11
Hardware: x86_64 => All
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Jan Merta 2015-07-11 15:56:43 CEST

Created attachment 6835 [details]
journalctl output from an attempt to run drakx11 graphics test

Comment 3 Jan Merta 2015-07-11 16:03:26 CEST

lspcidrake -v | grep Card
Card:ATI Radeon HD 4870 and earlier: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]|RV710/M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:9553 subv:1043 subd:1b42)

added the file with non-relevant parts removed

Marja Van Waes 2015-07-11 20:03:19 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2018-04-14 11:52:58 CEST

Thank you for having taken the needed time to report this issue!

Did this bug get fixed? If so, please change it's status to RESOLVED - FIXED

If it didn't, then we regret that we weren't able to fix it in Mageia 5. Mageia 5 has officially reached its End of Life on December 31st, 2017 https://blog.mageia.org/en/2017/11/07/mageia-5-eol-postponed/
It only continued to get important security updates since then, because we are waiting for a big Plasma5 update in Mageia 6, that'll fix many of the Mageia 5 => 6 upgrade issues.

If you haven't seen that this bug got fixed, then please check whether this bug still exists in Mageia 6. If it does, then please change the Version (near the top, at the left) to "6". If you know it exists in Cauldron, then change Version to Cauldron. If you see it in both Cauldron and Mageia 6, then please set version to Cauldron and add MGA6TOO on the Whiteboard.

Thanks,
Marja

(btw, I haven't seen this bug in Mga6 and cauldron, but am not sure I've tested with all our video cards)

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2018-10-06 12:58:47 CEST

No reply, so closing as OLD

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD