Bug 47768
| Summary: | Machine hangs during startx on S3 ProSavage KM133 video | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | NILMONI DEB <ndeb> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-08-17 03:50:26 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
NILMONI DEB
2001-07-06 23:42:34 UTC
Set your system to boot in runlevel 3 if it is not already. It is critical that I get server log from you in order to diagnose this. What version of XFree86 are you using now? The latest is 4.0.3-22.5 Pleas attach an uncompressed log file from /var/log/XFree86.0.log and also the messages log file (do not post a large file, trim it down please). Use the link below to make file attachments. It is already set at run-level 3 (text based login). I am using X-4.1.0. I contacted Tim of http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html and learnt that X-4.1.0 has their latest 1.1.7 driver. Its nearly impossible for me to get the server log as the whole system crashes when I just run "X". I can't ssh or telnet to the crashed machine from a remote machine. I made a workaround this way. I kept a remote ssh session running a "tail -f Xfree86.0.log" and then ran X. The crash occurred just after this last log message -> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.o Right now thats the best I can do. Also lspci gives: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8a26 When your system crashes, the XFree86.0.log should remain intact. It may get blown away somehow, but usually it is still intact. I now need the output of "lspci -v" and "lspci -vn" from you. lspci -v output:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8a26 (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel, IRQ 5
Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=512K]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
lspci -vn output:
01:00.0 Class 0300: 5333:8a26
Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel, IRQ 5
Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=512K]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
This chipset appears to have some code in 4.1.0 but it does not appear complete. The Status document for 4.1.0 does not list it as a supported chipset (ProSavage). I have emailed the author to get details. If the chip is in fact supported, then I may add it to Xconfigurator et al. I'll update this when I hear back from Tim. Aparently it is supposed to be supported at least partially, but there are reports of problems from a few people. Since it is not listed on the support doc, and there are known probs, I consider it a low priority problem right now. Will look into this again in the future though when I hear more from Tim. With the latest (1.1.18) savage driver from http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html the lockup problem is not there anymore. Great, closing bug, as our current driver is 1.1.20t and others have reported the problem is fixed now also. Thanks. |