Leslie Viljoen, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases, Ubuntu Intrepid reached EOL on April 30, 2010. Is this reproducible in a supported release? ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Package changed: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) => xorg (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301278 Title: All SDL apps crash in DirectFB on PPC Status in xorg package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in xserver-xorg-video-ati package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: This problem's first symptom is that you are completely logged out of your X session as soon as you try to run something like Tuxpaint on PPC. I have seen it on Fedora, Debian Lenny and Intrepid. Etch worked fine, probably because directfb was version 0.9. I have stepped though Tuxpaint until an SDL init: SDL_Init(1048625) (Those flags are: SDL_INIT_VIDEO | SDL_INIT_TIMER | SDL_INIT_AUDO | SDL_INIT_NOPARACHUTE) I then stepped through the SDL code until here: DirectFB_CreateDevice (devindex=<value optimized out>) at ../../src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_video.c:123 DirectFB_CreateDevice crashes. It sometimes prints the error below, but mostly it doesn't print anything, it just terminates the session. Since it looks permissions related I have run everything as root but that doesn't help. ---------8x-------------8x-----------8x-----------------8x---------------8x-------------------- =======================| DirectFB 1.0.1 |======================= (c) 2001-2007 The DirectFB Organization (directfb.org) (c) 2000-2004 Convergence (integrated media) GmbH ------------------------------------------------------------ (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2008-09-12 20:02) (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using ppcasm_memcpy() (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core! --> Access denied! =======================| DirectFB 1.0.1 |======================= (c) 2001-2007 The DirectFB Organization (directfb.org) (c) 2000-2004 Convergence (integrated media) GmbH ------------------------------------------------------------ (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2008-09-12 20:02) (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using libc memcpy() (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core! --> Access denied! Error: I could not initialize video and/or the timer! The Simple DirectMedia Layer error that occurred was: DirectFBCreate: Access denied! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/301278/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
