Bug#245249: marked as done (xserver-xfree86: [sis] screen melt with SiS 630ST and 4.3.0-7)
Your message dated Tue, 25 May 2004 18:47:47 -0400 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#245249: fixed in xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 22 Apr 2004 06:27:13 + From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 21 23:27:13 2004 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.82] by spohr.debian.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1BGXg1-0007lu-00; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:27:13 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO manger) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@63.200.37.130 with login) by smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2004 06:27:12 - Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:28:41 -0700 From: CE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xserver-xfree86: [sis] screen melt with SiS 630ST and 4.3.0-7 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_PACKAGE autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 X-Spam-Level: X-CrossAssassin-Score: 1 Subject: xserver-xfree86: [sis] screen melt with SiS 630ST and 4.3.0-7 Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0-7 Severity: important The recently updated package renders X unusable with the SiS 630ST. The screen will melt (going from black to white then fading) upon starting X. The effect is rather pretty but renders X unusable. X is able to be killed but no useful entries are left in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. The problem started with upgrading from 4.3.0-0ds4. X works fine with that release but newer packages seem to reintroduce a variant of a problem that Thomas Winischhofer http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml had fixed in the drivers. I can provide additional details if needed. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.25 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US -- Machine Specs: http://desknote.net/dn/spec.cfm?modID=104 -- lspci relevant listing: :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630/730 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (rev 31) --- Received: (at 245249-close) by bugs.debian.org; 25 May 2004 22:53:59 + From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 25 15:53:59 2004 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from newraff.debian.org [208.185.25.31] (mail) by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1BSko3-0005d5-00; Tue, 25 May 2004 15:53:59 -0700 Received: from katie by newraff.debian.org with local (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1BSki3-0004ym-00; Tue, 25 May 2004 18:47:47 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fabio M. Di Nitto) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Katie: $Revision: 1.49 $ Subject: Bug#245249: fixed in xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: Archive Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 18:47:47 -0400 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_44,HAS_BUG_NUMBER autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 X-Spam-Level: X-CrossAssassin-Score: 17 Source: xfree86 Source-Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of xfree86, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: lbxproxy_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb to pool/main/x/xfree86/lbxproxy_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb libdps-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb to pool/main/x/xfree86/libdps-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb libdps1-dbg_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb to pool/main/x/xfree86/libdps1-dbg_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb libdps1_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb to pool/main/x/xfree86/libdps1_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb libice-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb to pool/main/x/xfree86/libice-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb libice6-dbg_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb to pool/main/x/xfree86/libice6-dbg_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb libice6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb to pool/main/x/xfree86/libice6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb libsm-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb to pool/main/x/xfree86/libsm
Bug#245249: xserver-xfree86: [sis] screen melt with SiS 630ST and 4.3.0-7
(Now) known issue with the sis driver contained in Debian's release of 4.3. Fixed in later versions of the SiS driver, especially the one available on my website. (hint, hint) Thomas -- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria thomas AT winischhofer DOT net *** http://www.winischhofer.net twini AT xfree86 DOT org
Bug#245249: xserver-xfree86: [sis] screen melt with SiS 630ST and 4.3.0-7
tag 245249 + moreinfo upstream thanks On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:28:41PM -0700, CE wrote: Subject: xserver-xfree86: [sis] screen melt with SiS 630ST and 4.3.0-7 Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0-7 Severity: important The recently updated package renders X unusable with the SiS 630ST. The screen will melt (going from black to white then fading) upon starting X. The effect is rather pretty but renders X unusable. X is able to be killed but no useful entries are left in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. The problem started with upgrading from 4.3.0-0ds4. X works fine with that release but newer packages seem to reintroduce a variant of a problem that Thomas Winischhofer http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml had fixed in the drivers. I can provide additional details if needed. Yes, please do, per the instructions below. [The following is a form letter.] Dear bug submitter, Since the XFree86 X server is a large and complex piece of software, some more informtion is required of you before this bug can be handled. Please run the following commands from a shell prompt to gather and deliver this information to us: $ /usr/share/bug/xserver-xfree86 /tmp/output 31 $ mailx -s Re: Bug#245249 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/output If you do not have a mailx command on your system, you can get by installing the mailx Debian package; for example, with the aptitude install mailx or apt-get install mailx commands as root. Alternatively, you can also use a mail command that is compatible with mailx's command-line syntax, such as mutt. One very good way to file bugs with the Debian Bug Tracking System is to use the reportbug package and command of the same name. The reportbug program does a lot of automatic information-gathering that helps package maintainers to understand your system configuration, and also ensures that your message to the Debian Bug Tracking System is well-formed so that it is processed correctly by the automated tools that manage the reports. (If you've ever gotten a bounce message from the Debian Bug Tracking System that tells you your message couldn't be processed, you might appreciate this latter feature.) Therefore, I strongly urge you to give reportbug a try as your primary bug reporting tool for the Debian System in the future. If you *did* use reportbug to file your report, then you'r receiving this message because the information we expected to see was not present. If you deliberately deleted this information from the report, please don't do that in the future, even if it seems like it makes the mail too large. 50 kB (kilobytes) of configuration and log data is typical. Only if the included information greatly exceeds this amount (more than 100 kB) should you consider omitting it; instead, put it up on the World Wide Web somewhere and provide URLs to it in your report, or in subsequent followup by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Thank you! -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | kernel panic -- causal failure [EMAIL PROTECTED] | universe will now reboot http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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Bug#245249:
I recieved an e-mail from Thomas Winischhofer regarding this problem. After trying a few things X was working once again, but with an updated sis_drv.o file from his site. I've pasted in the e-mail below. In short the solution seems to be to incorporate Thomas' updated driver. I'll also respond with the output file requested. From: Thomas Winischhofer thomas@ To: CE ce7@ Subject: Re: SiS630 Debian bug Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:04:18 +0200 CE wrote: Hallo Thomas! I did a few tests with the sis_drv.o_4.3.0_gcc3_060304-1.tar.gz provided on your site: 1. Using 4.3.0-ds4 with 4.3.0-ds4 driver = fine 2. Using 4.3.0-ds4 with your driver = fine 3. Using 4.3.0-7 with 4.3.0-7 = melt upon start 4. Using 4.3.0-7 with 4.3.0-ds4 driver = fine 5. Using 4.3.0-7 with your driver = fine so it seems that either the X team or Debian did something to the driver between those releases. I am the X team ;) Debian ships a snapshot of the driver from last June. Seems that this snapshot was buggy. Anyway, I think Debian's X packager has an update of the SiS driver on his todo-list anyway. Nice to hear that the current driver works, however. Thomas
Bug#245249:
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:58:31AM -0700, CE wrote: I recieved an e-mail from Thomas Winischhofer regarding this problem. After trying a few things X was working once again, but with an updated sis_drv.o file from his site. I've pasted in the e-mail below. In short the solution seems to be to incorporate Thomas' updated driver. I'll also respond with the output file requested. Great! Thanks for following up! -- G. Branden Robinson| A fundamentalist is someone who Debian GNU/Linux | hates sin more than he loves [EMAIL PROTECTED] | virtue. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- John H. Schaar signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#245249:
No problem. It was also affecting Knoppix and Kanotix and would have been a shame if somebody popped a bootable CD in only to see that Linux didn't even display correctly :0 You wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:58:31AM -0700, CE wrote: I recieved an e-mail from Thomas Winischhofer regarding this problem. After trying a few things X was working once again, but with an updated sis_drv.o file from his site. I've pasted in the e-mail below. In short the solution seems to be to incorporate Thomas' updated driver. I'll also respond with the output file requested. Great! Thanks for following up!
Bug#245249: xserver-xfree86: [sis] screen melt with SiS 630ST and 4.3.0-7
Subject: xserver-xfree86: [sis] screen melt with SiS 630ST and 4.3.0-7 Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0-7 Severity: important The recently updated package renders X unusable with the SiS 630ST. The screen will melt (going from black to white then fading) upon starting X. The effect is rather pretty but renders X unusable. X is able to be killed but no useful entries are left in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. The problem started with upgrading from 4.3.0-0ds4. X works fine with that release but newer packages seem to reintroduce a variant of a problem that Thomas Winischhofer http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml had fixed in the drivers. I can provide additional details if needed. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.25 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US -- Machine Specs: http://desknote.net/dn/spec.cfm?modID=104 -- lspci relevant listing: :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630/730 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (rev 31)
