Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 52951
X messes display: Resetting FIFO
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:36:46 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8 i686) Description of problem: Occasionally the X desktop will become corrupted - images/windows not displaying, text appearing in the wrong place, scrolling displays text in new (semi-random) position without removing old text. When this happens, "Resetting FIFO" appears in the console output from 'startx'. /var/log/XFree86.0.log contains: Resetting FIFO (II) Open APM successful Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Power up machine (Dell Precision 220 / Dell Optiplex GX110, both using onboard intel i810 graphics). This bug seems to be kernel-independant occuring on both RedHat kernel and 2.4.8 2. Log in as root and ifconfig eth0/lo, add default gw 3. Log in as user and startx 4. Use and wait for it to occur! 5. When it occurs, the screen can be returned to normal by switching to a console (ctrl-alt-f1) then switching back to x. My need to be repeated a few times... Additional info: processes usually running: gnome/enlightenment identd sshd xinetd gpm crond xfs gnome-terminal licq xchat asclock_applet cpumemusage_applet deskguide_applet
I'm a spanner. I forgot to change the XF86Config-4 after changing from a machine with a Banshee chip, so it's still using the tdfx driver.
Created attachment 30281 [details] X log
Apologies; I appear to be a bit of a mess this morning - the card is actually a Banshee. lspci -vv output: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo Banshee (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: JOYTECH Computer Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0009 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9 Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M] Region 1: Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Region 2: I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [54] AGP version 1.0 Status: RQ=7 SBA+ 64bit+ FW- Rate=x1 Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Changing component from XFree86-Servers-3.3.6 to XFree86. Upgrade your beta to the current Rawhide X, Mesa, and any other packages that those are dependant on. Also, use the Red Hat kernel if encountering any problems. This is important for DRI. Also, you have a choice to make - either disable DRI completely by commenting out the Load line in the config file, or else lower your maximum resolution down to 1024x768. You cannot use DRI on a 16Mb card with 1600x1200 resolution. Please also attach your config file, and also the output of: uname -a
Please attach the requested information. Thanks.
Banshee video corruption issues were due to RAM timing being set incorrectly. This problem has been long since fixed now. If you still have this problem, please upgrade to the latest official updated packages that have been released for the version of Red hat Linux that you are currently using. Thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18810 ***