Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2005:648 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2005-10-05
Updated:
2005-10-05

RHBA-2005:648 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

hwdata bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

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Topic

An updated hwdata package that fixes various bugs is now available.

Description

The hwdata package contains hardware identification and configuration data.

Various updates were made to the pcitable in the hwdata package, including:

  • a fix to the mapping for certain QLogic cards
  • support for additional MPT Fusion cards
  • a fix for an ATI card brand name
  • a fix for an anaconda crash when installing on machines with certain

video cards

Additionally, the hisax ISDN modules were added to the blacklist of
automatically loaded modules to allow them to be loaded by the ISDN init
script.

The descriptive databases of monitors, PCI ids, and USB ids were also updated.

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which addresses these
issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

  • BZ - 107088 - RHEL4 U2: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) support (HW)
  • BZ - 154799 - rc.sysinit initializing hardware processing prevents ISDN from proper starting
  • BZ - 160047 - Anaconda sets graphic card to "ATI Mach 64" whereas it is a "ATI Rage XL"
  • BZ - 163907 - Crash with S3 Trio video card: KeyError: 'S3 Trio3D\nS3 Trio64 3D'

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4

SRPM
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.src.rpm SHA-256: e0822b5858c192dbd637231034dff17303f6651683b1abe79ccb8017c6af6a3f
x86_64
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3
ia64
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3
i386
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4

SRPM
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.src.rpm SHA-256: e0822b5858c192dbd637231034dff17303f6651683b1abe79ccb8017c6af6a3f
x86_64
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3
ia64
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3
i386
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4

SRPM
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.src.rpm SHA-256: e0822b5858c192dbd637231034dff17303f6651683b1abe79ccb8017c6af6a3f
x86_64
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3
i386
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4

SRPM
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.src.rpm SHA-256: e0822b5858c192dbd637231034dff17303f6651683b1abe79ccb8017c6af6a3f
s390x
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3
s390
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4

SRPM
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.src.rpm SHA-256: e0822b5858c192dbd637231034dff17303f6651683b1abe79ccb8017c6af6a3f
ppc
hwdata-0.146.12.EL-1.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f66c8e948e46e90088d5fb52474c03c20022b11827eff82728e950eebdf360f3

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