No graphic mode on Asus boards

[Adam Jackson]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 17:37 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 14:37 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>> "AJ" == Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > AJ> I don't know what chips are on those boards.  What does lspci say?
> > 
> > It's nvidia:
> >  00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7050 PV
> >    / nForce 630a (rev a2)
> > 
> > I have a couple of M2N-VM DVI machines and they work fine with F8 and
> > the binary driver.  They're in production, though, so I've no
> > possibility of testing things out on them.
> 
> Ah yeah.  The 7050 isn't actually supported by the nv driver, it's
> apparently weirder than your normal GeForce 7.
> 
> We should be falling back to vesa though.  I'll try to figure it out,
> and will recruit testers if I get a test package that I think will drop
> to vesa correctly.

Alright, I've got a (bad) fix for this.  Not the final fix I want to
use, but I'd at least appreciate some testing from people with this kind
of nv driver failure.  It's actually an X server fix, and it can be
found here: 

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/ajax/task_940170/

Run X, either with no config file or with nv selected as the driver in
the config, and then verify in the X log that we fell back to vesa.  I
don't have one of the affected nv chips so I had to synthesize the
failure by hacking the nv driver, but it should work.  Probably.

- ajax
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