On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 09:15:08PM -0700, J. Scott Heppler wrote: > In an old ECS desknote with and Sis 630 video chipset > a segmentation fault occurs during X startup > OpenBSD 5.3 release ran fine. It is an old laptop and Sis has not made > video cards for years so this is a low priority. > > I am willing to test since the hardware is getting scarce. If there is > not much interest, a comment to that effect would be helpful.
Hi, Yes, the recent upgrade to X server 1.14.1 broke the SiS driver. This is a know problem, and the X.Org people are aware of this: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2013-May/036138.html As soon as this effort produces a working driver again, we'll merge it in OpenBSD. In the mean time, if you could follow the instructions in /usr/xenocara/README to build xserver and driver/xf86-video-sis with debugging symbols (-g) and run X under gdb from a second machine to get a backtrace when the server crashes, it will help a bit. -- Matthieu Herrb
