Bug 434545 - OS crashes when running xserver
Summary: OS crashes when running xserver
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-fpit
Version: 8
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-22 17:13 UTC by Dan Naughton
Modified: 2009-01-09 07:40 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 07:40:42 UTC
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Log file for xserver (40.61 KB, text/plain)
2008-02-22 17:13 UTC, Dan Naughton
no flags Details

Description Dan Naughton 2008-02-22 17:13:07 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3

Description of problem:
My system has the AMD Geode LX800 CPU.  I've had no luck getting the xserver running.

Graphical install fails - had to use text mode only
Xorg -configure fails  "Missing output drivers.  Configuration failed."
ddprobe fails - no monitors detected

When i configure the xserver with the amd-drv.so  "amd" driver, the computer crashes (no network, keyboard, screen - looks like a hard failure).  I even used the xorg.conf_lx sample configuration from AMD, but the result was the same - the computer crashed.

The log files don't indicate anything:
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libpcidata.so
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
- it looks like the computer died right here.

It might not be the amd driver, but when I try the VESA driver, it still doesn't work, but the computer is still partially alive (display shut off, but network still up)

I tried the amd driver in fedora testing, but it didn't make any difference.  Other "distros" - this live usbkey gparted version got the xserver up right away with xfce on it.  Windows XP and CE runs on the hardware.  



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 xorg-x11-drv-amd-0.0-22.20070625.fc8 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-42.fc8 

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot computers
2.startx
3.computer dies.

Actual Results:
Computer locks up - no display, no keyboard (num lock key LED goes off), network stops responding

Expected Results:
Xserver starts up.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dan Naughton 2008-02-22 17:13:56 UTC
Created attachment 295656 [details]
Log file for xserver

Comment 2 Dan Naughton 2008-02-22 17:18:11 UTC
I don't think I got the last part of the log file correct:

c000:0282: A2 ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE!
(WW) AMD(0): xf86UnMapVidMem: cannot find region for [0xb3dab000,0x3e00000]


Comment 3 Dan Naughton 2008-03-03 03:32:27 UTC
I got some information back on the xorg mailing list from someone way more
knowledgeable that me.  Apparently there is a bug in the xserver for Geode
motherboard that use GSW VGA BIOS.  There's more information on this one here:

http://www.jukie.net/~bart/blog/fixing-x-for-geode-lx

I hope this helps.


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