Bug 443544 - X crash on Silicon Motion, Inc. SM712 LynxEM+
Summary: X crash on Silicon Motion, Inc. SM712 LynxEM+
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-siliconmotion
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-22 04:40 UTC by CHIKAMA Masaki
Modified: 2009-07-14 17:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-07-14 17:37:27 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
xorg.conf (3.39 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-22 04:40 UTC, CHIKAMA Masaki
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log (21.78 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-22 04:41 UTC, CHIKAMA Masaki
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log without xorg.conf (23.99 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-22 04:42 UTC, CHIKAMA Masaki
no flags Details

Description CHIKAMA Masaki 2008-04-22 04:40:34 UTC
Description of problem:

  No X starts on Silicon Motion, Inc. SM712 LynxEM+

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-siliconmotion-1.6.0-1.fc9.i386

How reproducible:

 Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot single user
2. X
3.
  
Actual results:
fail to start X

Expected results:
sucess to start X

Additional info:

Comment 1 CHIKAMA Masaki 2008-04-22 04:40:34 UTC
Created attachment 303258 [details]
xorg.conf

Comment 2 CHIKAMA Masaki 2008-04-22 04:41:31 UTC
Created attachment 303259 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Comment 3 CHIKAMA Masaki 2008-04-22 04:42:18 UTC
Created attachment 303260 [details]
Xorg.0.log without xorg.conf

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 09:54:34 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 5 Richard Schwarting 2008-06-08 19:27:13 UTC
Hey.

This also fails to work with the "Silicon Motion, Inc. SM720 Lynx3DM" as found
on an Acer TravelMate C100.  I had been using Ubuntu 8.04 where X worked just
fine.  Even using the xorg.conf file from the successful Ubuntu X configuration,
it still enters into the endless loop, trying divers modes and sync rates. 

Is there anything else I can provide to help?

Comment 6 Richard Schwarting 2008-12-13 21:13:49 UTC
Hey.  

Can we get any acknowledgment of the issue here?  I ended up switching to Ubuntu after since I felt pretty lost.  

It's now been reported upstream and working patches are available and being further developed.
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18816

People with Silicon Motion cards that suffer this fate from X's switch to libpciaccess DO NOT HAVE X and thus NO DESKTOP and effectively NO FEDORA (save as a server :D).

Even if you do not want to set the priority to anything greater than low (because users with such old cards should just buy new computers), could you at least set the severity to something greater than low? :D

Comment 7 CHIKAMA Masaki 2008-12-19 12:31:31 UTC
I updated severity, but couldn't modify priority ;-).
I understand that the maintainer(A.J) can only track upstream's changes
because he doesn't have such hardware.
I'm waiting version 1.6.1(or 1.7.0?) is released.

Comment 8 Richard Schwarting 2008-12-30 00:24:36 UTC
Hey.  

The Freedesktop bug http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18816 has been resolved with the changes committed to master and 1.7.0 of the driver has been branched containing the fixes.  

These fixes are necessary for people with our video card to use X At All so it would be nice if the driver could somehow make it out for F10 Updates, in case any owner is still periodically yum updating in hopes of seeing X boot again :|

Cheers, 
  Richard

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 00:21:13 UTC
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Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 17:37:27 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
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