FS#10843 - bug with xf86-video-vesa

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by christopher rogers (godane) - Monday, 07 July 2008, 05:08 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 18 July 2008, 20:56 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Alexander Baldeck (kth5)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description:
there is a bug in the new xf86-video-vesa 2.0.0 that cause virtualbox not to be able to work in Xwindow. Since virtualbox uses vesa for video it will cause a lot problems with developers like me that use virtualbox almost everyday.

there is a patch at the bottom of the page. The patch is for vesa.c file.
debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg538868.html"> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg538868.html

I also have a patch that will be add to this bug report.

xf86-video-vesa 2.0.0
virtualbox-modules and virtualbox-ose 1.6.2

Steps to reproduce:
Have xf86-video-vesa installed on host machine.
Start virtualbox and use a livecd or something with a graphical login.
Aand wait for graphical login that never will come. It will just go black.
   vesa-fix.patch (0.7 KiB)
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Friday, 18 July 2008, 20:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Reverted to 1.3.0.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Monday, 07 July 2008, 05:22 GMT
Please make a bug report upstream
Comment by christopher rogers (godane) - Monday, 07 July 2008, 05:52 GMT
The link was screwed up.

debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg538868.html"> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg538868.html

The bug report has been made upstream. The link's date is 06/05/2008. This bug may not get fix in awhile cause some projects are not updated for one bug. Even if its causing problems with virtualbox.
Comment by christopher rogers (godane) - Monday, 07 July 2008, 05:54 GMT
I can't put the link up in the last comment. Please copy and paste it in the address bar of your broswer.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Monday, 07 July 2008, 06:19 GMT
The debian link above doesnt contain a link to an upstream bug report.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 07 July 2008, 08:24 GMT
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16378 is the upstream bug. Note that upstream hasn't commented on this bug yet and debian doesn't include this patch in their package (yet).
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Thursday, 10 July 2008, 06:38 GMT
Are you sure you meant using vesa on the *host*, and not on the *guest*?
I was using vesa on the guest, and I indeed ran into this problem, but then I switched to use the virtualbox driver, and it works perfectly fine :
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11816

But does this bug really happen only inside virtualbox?
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Thursday, 10 July 2008, 06:44 GMT
Sorry,  FS#10855  answers my question, this problem does not only exist inside virtualbox, but I am still a bit confused about the situation in this bug report.
Comment by Gavin Bisesi (Daenyth) - Thursday, 10 July 2008, 20:02 GMT
I have this issue outside of vbox, see the comments in  FS#10855 
Comment by mangus (mangus) - Friday, 11 July 2008, 18:52 GMT
I can confirm the problem outside vbox , my machine at work
broke with vesa 2.0. I'm running a S3 virge 4Mb video card (yes, old...)
it was working with vesa 1.3
same problem
/usr/bin/xorg: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so: undefined symbol: xf86GTFMode



Comment by christopher rogers (godane) - Saturday, 12 July 2008, 03:48 GMT
I only noticed it in virtualbox cause my system uses a script to setup xorg.conf to xf86-video-ati driver. Sorry about that.
Comment by Jan M. (funkyou) - Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 17:59 GMT
I just tried the patch on the vesa driver, but somehow only 800x600 does working and no other resolution, even if i specify something else in xorg.conf...
Dont know if its the patch or the updated driver...
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 21:28 GMT
I will downgrade to 1.3 soon, seems the latest videodrivers are for xorg-server 1.5. I'll prepare packages for xorg-server-1.4.99.905 soon and update the drivers to the latest versions in testing then.

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