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:
Created attachment 295656 [details] Log file for xserver
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]
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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