Re: Bug#287249: xserver-xfree86: Crashes on SPARC with Elite3D/m6
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:32:44 +0100 T.Amm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any other install kernel just gives me a MMU-Fast Instruction Miss. So I am actually damned with Solaris - which is not *so* bad - but what's life without Linux? Use the latest Sarge testing boot images, I'm happily running Debian on my 1.5GHZ SB1500 Back to the bug report. The X server already makes a check, but there was some talk the other week about this check crashing Creator3D chips (since we poke a register that only exists on the Elite3D card to check this) so it's possible someone patched the test out or changed it. I haven't looked at the X server sources in a year or so unfortunately, so I'm pretty out of touch with the current state of the tree. And with a million and a half networking and sparc64 kernel things to do, I doubt I'll get back to it any time soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#287249: xserver-xfree86: Crashes on SPARC with Elite3D/m6
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, David S. Miller wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:32:44 +0100 T.Amm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any other install kernel just gives me a MMU-Fast Instruction Miss. So I am actually damned with Solaris - which is not *so* bad - but what's life without Linux? Use the latest Sarge testing boot images, I'm happily running Debian on my 1.5GHZ SB1500 Back to the bug report. The X server already makes a check, but there was some talk the other week about this check crashing Creator3D chips (since we poke a register that only exists on the Elite3D card to check this) so it's possible someone patched the test out or changed it. No. That check in sunffb is not changed. Apparently a reboot cured the original problem; I have heard nothing further on it. I was prepared to modify the check for the reporter and for the reporter only: after all, sunffb has been running fine for years, and this looked like a one-user problem. It seems it was a no-user problem, and sunffb is as it always has been. I haven't looked at the X server sources in a year or so unfortunately, so I'm pretty out of touch with the current state of the tree. And with a million and a half networking and sparc64 kernel things to do, I doubt I'll get back to it any time soon. Only recent changes to sunffb are yours for XAA friends. By the way, you get that abort from xfree/xorg and sunffb and Elite when, as here, you do not have the microcode loaded. If you install and load the afb microcode, that abort should go away. (As, I believe, the bug reporter indicates.) Someday I might even look at why this is the case. Hope this is close to on topic, Regards, Ferris - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer, Gentoo Linux (sparc) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCRexUQa6M3+I///cRAinxAJ0ZO1s0iPZWoexR04MU/ZM+XPlxPQCfZSs9 y2r4nznr+nrLgj2UdRCdLKs= =V0en -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#287249: xserver-xfree86: Crashes on SPARC with Elite3D/m6
retitle 287249 xserver-xfree86: [sunffb] SEGVs on startup if afbinit not used to load firmware first on Sun FFB2 Vertical Creator 3D tag 287249 + upstream help thanks On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 12:11:29PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Severity: important [...] on a fresh install of sarge on SPARC (SunBlade 1000 with Elite3D), I'm encountering a similar problem as #280384. Unfortunately, this can't be worked around with the -dbg version: Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Please tell me what further info you need. Can some of you SPARC gurus help out? I've attached two further followups from Mr. Stigge. Is there a way for the sunffb driver to tell the firmware hasn't been initialized? If so, maybe some xf86DrvMsg() screech code can be written into it? David S. Miller, I beseech you for some oracular wisdom. :) -- G. Branden Robinson| I don't care if it has a GUI, or Debian GNU/Linux | command line, or is carved in mud [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with a sharp spoon. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Barry Smith ---BeginMessage--- Hi, FYI, I tried xserver-xorg etc. (from Ubuntu / current hoary) and got the same result. bye, Roland -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Hi, I've found the Elite3D firmware from Solaris in the net: /usr/lib/afb.ucode. Loading this (with afbinit), it works. Seems that the issue of #245246 isn't solved completely. Otherwise, I wouldn't have encountered this problem. (Or did I miss some warning during the installation process?) bye, Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message--- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
