VESA driver hsync config problem

[Adam Jackson]

On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 08:24 -0600, Xavier Toth wrote:
> For awhile now I've been struggling with what is probably a Vesa
> driver issue related to but different from Fedora Core bug# 10238. I'm
> running the latest X (7.2) under FC6 in a Parallels VM on a Mac and
> the server won't start unless I specify the HorizSync in the Monitor
> section of xorg.conf. I dug around and found references to
> vesa-1.3.0-range-hack.patch which I applied but this made no
> difference.
> My group is putting together a livecd for demo purposes and the
> xorg.conf generated by system-config-display (FC6) doesn't add a
> HorizSync so X won't start. Hopefully someone will have an idea how to
> fix this otherwise I might have to hack the config to add the
> HorizSync as an interim solution, any thoughts?

Parallels needs to be taught to emulate DDC as well, it seems.

But if you have an X log, and there's an identifying string in the VBE
info, then we might be able to hack something up.

- ajax