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 |
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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: | --- |
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Description
Jerry Clotfelter
2001-02-24 16:20:31 UTC
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 |