Bug#488669: sparc X server bug
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:37:47PM +0100, Daniel Smolik wrote:
> Gaudenz Steinlin napsal(a):
> I downgraded Xorg to SID and there is a result:
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> ==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Oct 30 21:36:11 2008
> (++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"
> (WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0x20000 e: 0x3ffff correcting
> mmap failure: Invalid argument
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> Fatal server error:
> xf86MapDomainMem(): mmap() failure
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The X server in unstable is expected to not work without the patch. It should
behave the same as the kernel in testing in this regard.
> sunik:~# uname -a
> Linux sunik 2.6.26-1-sparc64 #1 Sun Oct 26 17:42:45 UTC 2008 sparc64 GNU/Linux
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> I mean that patch doesn't help.
That's strange, because others report that the patch fixes the problem. I'm a bit
lost now and it's difficult to further debug this without the proper hardware.
Are you really sure that you are running the patched kernel and that you are
not running the kernel from lenny or unstable?
Gaudenz
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> Dan
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>>> I must say again that problem on SPARC machines with Xorg is problem
>>> with Xorg not with kernel.
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>> In principle I agree with you. But to fix the X server side of the
>> problem we would have to upgrade to the X server currently in
>> experimental. I don't think that it's possible to upgrade lenny to
>> this version at this moment right before the release. So I'm trying to find
>> out if the problem is also solved by reverting the problematic kernel
>> change.
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>> And as you have noticed yourself, the X server in experimental has other
>> problems. So it's not really suitable for a release.
>>> Please look at http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/3/147 <http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/3/147>
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>> I'm already aware of this.
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>> Gaudenz
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