Bug 29194
| Summary: | [ps/2] XFree86 hangs/segv on VIA 686B chipset with AGP cards | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Jerry Clotfelter <jerry> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Ben LaHaise <bcrl> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | david_j_morse, mharris |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-08-09 19:07:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Found an Nvidia 128 PCI video card to test. PCI card works OK. Problem seems limited to the AGP bus. Ammendment to previous additional comment: xserver still hangs until mouse is moved even on PCI but once mouse is moved xserver test works OK. This test was run under option A: booting from CD As a followup test, I down-leveled the Xserver to XFree86-4.0.1 from the RedHat 7.0 cd and it seems to work fine. no AGP problems, no hang till mouse is moved problems. From a configuration that does not work for you of the X package that comes in Wolverine, please attach to this bug report your XServer configuration (XF86Config-4) and the XFree error logs found in /var/log. At first I'd have been inclined to think it was an agpgart problem, but now I'm not sure. Looks like it may be a mouse driver problem. Try picking a different mouse driver. Try Logitech Mouseman+ Wheel, and also try the PnP one. I use a logitech PS/2 mouse with no problem this way. Also, try running X with "noaccel" enabled, and with "nodri" as well. My guess is it is the mouse though. There have been some kernel related ps/2 problems also, so I'll Cc someone from the kernel group. Ok, just got word from the kernel guys, this is a known kernel bug. Reassigning to kernel package. Note: I am not sure that this is a PS/2 problem since it exists with a generic serial mouse as well as a PS/2 mouse. The Logitech mouseman was the first driver I tried, then generic ps/2 then I unplugged the ps/2 mouse and rebooted with a generic serial mouse attached and got the same results in all cases. I tired multiple combinations of mouse drivers with various vidio cards / drivers to no avail. I am not familiar with nodri but the problem exists with generic VGA which, I believe, is not accelerated. Also, do you still want the configuration and log files? I am currently running the 4.0.1 package that came with RH 7.0 with no problems except Gnome doesn't think that sawfish is running so I cannot do any desktop configuration. If necessary, I can reinstall the 4.0.2 packages from wolverine to get the config and log files. - Let me know. Can you confirm if the bug is fixed/not in Seawolf? I will give it a try as soon as I can get a copy. With RH 7.1 the loader still hangs until the mouse is moved with an agp video card. However, with the latest release when the mouse is moved the xserver seems to load normally. Have only been able to try this booting from the CD. Will confirm with startx once I have a system loaded with 7.1. Have you confirmed this is working now? Aparently it is fixed now for quite some time, changing status to MODIFIED. Sorry it took so long to be able to do full test. Once 7.1 was loaded, could not start xserver with any configuration. Had trouble freeing up machine long enough to do proper testing. This machine is also a key router. Anyway, We can close this problem. With the latest kernel and libraries the xserver works fine on an ATI AGP video card. There is, however, a problem with the Matrox M100 driver which is why I could not report good results until I could shutdown the machine and replace the video card. Changing QA contact to dkl |
On both fisher and wolverine, XFree86 hangs at "test settings" till the mouse is moved. Then segfaults. This happens with generic serial mouse, generic 3 button ps/2 mouse and with logitech 3-button ps/2 mouse. I continued install and have tried every combo of Xconfig with 4 different video cards (all AGP) using the default driver as recommended by Xconfigurator and trying reasonable alternatives including generic vga. Have also tried different memory/monitor combos, all with the same results. Have also tried altering BIOS settings to no avail. All of the system combos described below work fine with Redhat 7.0 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Option A: 1. boot wolverine or fisher CD 2. choose all defaults or pick your own config 3. hit test settings Option B: 1. install wolverine and skip XFree86 configuration 2. after install, configure XFree in any reasonable combo 3. test settings or just run "startx" Actual Results: With CD boot, system goes through normal bootup/anaconda config and the anaconda xserver works fine in all cases. Once you get to the X configuration, system hangs till the mouse is moved, the screen blanks for a second then returns to config screen On regular install, Operating system works fine all services seem to be available. When you run startx the screen goes blank then returns with fatal server error (segv) Testbed: Systems that show the problem 1Ghz Athlon on Asus A7V133 -KT133A chipset (VIA 686B southbridge) 700Mhz Athlon on FIC AZ11E -KT133 chipset (VIA 686B southbridge) Systems that work fine 1Ghz Athlon on ABit KT7-RAID - KT133 chipset (VIA 686A southbridge) 450Mhz P3 on Freetech motherboard (intel chipset) 350Mhz K6 on EFI motherboard (VIA MVP chipset) Available Video Cards for testing ATI Rage Pro ATI Rage IIC Matrox G100 Nvidia TNT II Nvidia 128 (STB Velocity 128) Banshee (16Mb Monster Fusion) All tests so far are with AGP cards. I Will try to get pci card for testing this weekend and post results