Description of problem: i945GM. When starting with modeset active, X aborts. Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. [Switching to Thread 0x7f6b54961780 (LWP 3555)] 0x000000379c232f75 in raise (sig=<value optimized out>) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 64 return INLINE_SYSCALL (tgkill, 3, pid, selftid, sig); (gdb) bt #0 0x000000379c232f75 in raise (sig=<value optimized out>) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 #1 0x000000379c234ae3 in abort () at abort.c:88 #2 0x000000379c22bf09 in __assert_fail (assertion=<value optimized out>, file=<value optimized out>, line=<value optimized out>, function=<value optimized out>) at assert.c:78 #3 0x00007f6b53a9b7b8 in i830_allocate_memory (pScrn=0x875b40, name=0x7f6b53ace43a "compressed frame buffer", size=6291456, alignment=4096, flags=<value optimized out>) at i830_memory.c:762 #4 0x00007f6b53a9c849 in i830_allocate_2d_memory (pScrn=0x875b40) at i830_memory.c:1356 #5 0x00007f6b53a94707 in I830ScreenInit (scrnIndex=0, pScreen=0x87ba90, argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>) at i830_driver.c:2794 #6 0x000000000042be49 in AddScreen (pfnInit=0x7f6b53a93e00 <I830ScreenInit>, argc=8, argv=0x7fff5c980a78) at main.c:743 #7 0x00000000004622d6 in InitOutput (pScreenInfo=0x7e0d60, argc=8, argv=0x7fff5c980a78) at xf86Init.c:1051 #8 0x000000000042c5e6 in main (argc=8, argv=0x7fff5c980a78, envp=0x7fff5c980ac0) at main.c:358 (gdb) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.901-8.20080310.fc9.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-12.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time
(II) resource ranges after preInit: [0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B] [5] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B] [6] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B] [7] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [8] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B] [9] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B] [10] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B] (II) intel(0): Kernel stolen allocator is 7932kb (II) intel(0): Kernel AGP allocator is 254212kb (II) intel(0): [drm] Using the DRM lock SAREA also for drawables. (II) intel(0): [drm] framebuffer mapped by ddx driver (II) intel(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel (II) intel(0): X context handle = 0x1 (II) intel(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (==) intel(0): VideoRam: 254212 KB (**) intel(0): Framebuffer compression enabled (**) intel(0): Tiling enabled (II) intel(0): Attempting memory allocation with tiled buffers.
I don't see this issue either. Still happening for you? kernel-2.6.25-0.195.rc8.git1.fc9.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-19.fc9.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.901-16.20080401.fc9.x86_64 Intel GM965, i915.modeset=1.
Works now on i945.