Bug 559317 - X crashes when trying to load using vesa driver on ATI Radeon 7200 Apple Power Mac G4 AGP graphics
Summary: X crashes when trying to load using vesa driver on ATI Radeon 7200 Apple Powe...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-vesa
Version: 11
Hardware: powerpc
OS: Linux
low
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-01-27 18:06 UTC by William M. Quarles
Modified: 2010-06-28 15:38 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-06-28 15:38:43 UTC
Type: ---
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My Xorg.0.log file showing the VESA driver failure. (7.37 KB, text/plain)
2010-01-27 18:07 UTC, William M. Quarles
no flags Details

Description William M. Quarles 2010-01-27 18:06:14 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I'm having a lot of trouble using X on this computer with the xorg-ATI driver (described in summary), so it was suggested to me on the user's list to try using the vesa driver instead. So I had even worse luck doing that. Below is the screen output. Attached is the log file.

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[William@localhost ~]$startx
xauth:  creating new authority file /home/William/.serverauth.1566


X.Org X Server 1.6.3.901 (1.6.4 RC 1)
Release Date 2009-8-25
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 ppc
Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.30.10-105.fc11.ppc #1
 Thu Dec 24 16:28:20 UTC 2009 ppc
Kernel Command line: root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root ro rhgb quiet
Build Date: 09 September 2009 11:36:55AM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.6.4-0.1.fc11
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implememented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Oct 11 10:37:12 1976
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x50) [0x101014e0]
1: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0xd8) [0x10085fc8]
2: [0x100364]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so(LockLegacyVGA+0x50) [0xf241c30]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so(xf86ExtendedInitInt10+0x1e0) [0xf245f30]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvbe.so(VBEExtendedInit+0x320) [0xf281760]
6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so [0xf2a9f24]
7: /usr/bin.X(InitOutput+0x5bc) [0x1006a6cc]
8: /usr/bin/X(main+0x224) [0x10021bb4]
9: /lib/libc.so.6 [0xf7f343c]
10: /lib/libc.so.6 [0xf7f35e0]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 7. Server aborting


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
         at http://wiki.x.org
 for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.o.log" for additional
 information.

giving up.
xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In text mode as root, run this command:
    system-config-display --noui --set-driver=vesa
2. startx
3. Look at the crappy output shown above.
Actual Results:  
X couldn't start and it provides a lot of crash information.

Expected Results:  
X should start

Comment 1 William M. Quarles 2010-01-27 18:07:14 UTC
Created attachment 387136 [details]
My Xorg.0.log file showing the VESA driver failure.

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