Bug#242986: installation-reports: xserver does not start for sis 745gx video chipset
Package: installation-reports
Version: beta 3
Severity: normal
Debian-installer-version:
30 March 2004
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta3/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux ada 2.4.25-1-k7 #1 Tue Feb 24 14:24:28 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
(But I have upgraded to the k7 kernel image after installation, initially it
was just i386.)
Date: 30 March 2004 22:00
Method: Booted from burnt CD.
Machine: White box PC Chips M863G mainboard
Processor: Athlon XP 2400+
Memory: 512 MB
Root Device: IDE Western Digital 80 GB
Root Size/partition table:
Before: Single partition + swap potato debian.
After: Single root partition + swap.
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 9483 76172166 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 9484 9729 1975995 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 9484 9729 1975963+ 82 Linux swap
(I'm not sure how /dev/hda2 ended up in there.)
Output of lspci:
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0741 (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 25)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 90)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV10DDR [GeForce 256 DDR] (rev 10)
$ cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: PCI device 1039:0741 (Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]) (rev 3).
Master Capable. Latency=32.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd3ffffff].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: PCI device 1039:0003 (Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]) (rev 0). Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=10.
Bus 0, device 2, function 0:
ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 37).
Bus 0, device 2, function 5:
IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 0).
Master Capable. Latency=128.
I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffaf].
Bus 0, device 2, function 7:
Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev 160).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=52.Max Lat=11.
I/O at 0xe800 [0xe8ff].
I/O at 0xec00 [0xec7f].
Bus 0, device 3, function 1:
USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#2) (rev 15).
IRQ 3.
Master Capable. Latency=64. Max Lat=80.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfffe000 [0xcfffefff].
Bus 0, device 3, function 0:
USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 15).
IRQ 7.
Master Capable. Latency=64. Max Lat=80.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfffd000 [0xcfffdfff].
Bus 0, device 3, function 3:
USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller (rev 0). IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=64. Max Lat=80.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcffff000 [0xcfffffff].
Bus 0, device 4, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 144).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=52.Max Lat=11.
I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfffc000 [0xcfffcfff].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV10DDR [GeForce 256 DDR] (rev 16).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xce000000 [0xceffffff].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xc0000000 [0xc7ffffff].
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 2000.090
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3984.58
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Generally the install impressed me. It's gotten much better since
potato! I loved how my mouse and network (DHCP) just worked! The system
I ended up with was pretty slick too.
Some specific comments:
* I found the partitioning step confusing. I'd like to make more
detailed comments but I don't have time now to go back through it and
take notes. I think I remember bouncing around between various automatic
and manual options trying to figure out how to resize a partition before
realising I had to delete it and create a new one.
* My sis video chipset got detected but unfortunately XFree86 4.3.x does
not have support for the my sis 741gx. I was stuck at the text console.
>From using knoppix I knew that the vesa driver does work, so I switched
it to that and X came up beautifully. Later I downloaded Thomas
Winschofer's sis driver, but it has been crashing for me whenever X
starts a 2nd time after reboot (e.g. on first logout from GNOME). I've
been working with Thomas to identify that bug.
* You mention in the errata that there is no /etc/fstab entry for /cdrom. This
is a little annoying but understandable in a beta. I set it up manually, but I
can't figure out how to override silly Rock Ridge accidents in burning the CD.
My user is in the group cdrom and so is /dev/hdc. I have the user option in
/etc/fstab for /cdrom. But when I mount (without sudo) some Unix CDs /cdrom
becomes owned by root and has permissions rwx------. I thought in the old days
that user mounts changed the ownership of /cdrom to match the user who mounted
it?
I hope this feedback is helpful.
Thanks and cheers,
Matthew.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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