VESA driver hsync config problem

[Ted X Toth]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 15:45 -0500, Ted X Toth wrote:
>   
>> Correct x.log (which is a capture of stdout and stderr and not the real 
>> log file,  Xorg.0.log) was a capture of the failure mode, no HorizSync 
>> in the config file. I sent that because the GTK error message doesn't 
>> get written to Xorg.0.log. So the scenario is the server seems to be 
>> coming up just fine then the GTK error occurs and the server aborts.
>> The way I originally figured out to add HorizSync to the config file was 
>> by debugging through the server and seeing a huge obviously invalid 
>> value for the horizontal sync. What I'm going to do is go back and 
>> figure out exactly where that value was coming from and hopefully that 
>> will shed some light on the root of the problem.
>>     
>
> Please don't top post.
>
> You're still managing to avoid the original question here, which is
> "what should the vesa driver do when it notices it's being run under
> Parallels".  Every log I've seen from you is of the server _starting_,
> and getting far enough that it can actually serve clients.
>
> We can easily fix the vesa driver to do something smarter in that
> situation, which avoids ever screwing with the config file, or with the
> horror of s-c-d.
>
> - ajax
>
>   
I'm not avoiding the question at this point I just don't know what the 
right answer is.  When I have more information I'll post again.

Ted