From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: On kernel 2.4.18-5 using i686 with i810-series chipset (my case i815 chipset), X windows will start only once. On 2.4.18-4, this problem does not exist. I have verified this problem on two computers with totally different motherboards and slightly different chipsets. In init level 3, I can boot up, log in, do startx, run gnome or kde, and log out back to command prompt. Second attempt to do startx fails. Booting to init level 5, I can log in and log out, then the problem starts. On one computer I get a console hang. On another computer, the system tries to run Xconfigurator automatically as a helpful solution, but it doesn't solve the problem. My absolute cure for this problem is to force 2.4.18-4 rpm back in and get rid of 2.4.18-5. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install 2.4.18-5 2.boot, login, run x (either startx from init level 3 or boot to init level 5 3.log out from window manager 4.if init level 3, try startx again) Actual Results: XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.2.0-8) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 23 January 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.17-0.13smp i686 [ELF] Build Host: daffy.perf.redhat.com Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Jul 11 07:25:40 2002 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" (EE) GARTInit: AGPIOC_INFO failed (Invalid argument) (EE) I810(0): AGP GART support is not available. Make sure your kernel has agpgart support or that the agpgart kernel module is loaded. (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Please report problems to xfree86. XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Expected Results: No error, x would restart. Additional info:
Should be fixed in http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/testkernels it was an i810 DRM code bug fixed about a week ago
fixed in current erratum