Bug#415543: xorg: xserver crashes on beige G3 PowerMac
Hi debian-powerpc,
Could somebody have a look at bug #415543? Rob has a strange problem on
his PowerMac. Basically, Xorg and network cannot work at the same time.
I suspect a hardware or kernel problem, but I am not familiar enough
with powerpc to debug further. Help would be appreciated.
TIA,
Brice
rob wrote:
> Hi, first of all thanks for your reply. My /proc/interrupts looks as follows:
>
> CPU0
> 18: 583 PMAC-PIC Edge MESH
> 20: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge PMac
> 21: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge PMac Output
> 22: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge PMac Input
> 23: 217 PMAC-PIC Level eth0
> 25: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge SWIM3
> 27: 1559 PMAC-PIC Edge ide0
> 29: 5078 PMAC-PIC Edge ADB
> BAD: 0
>
> eth0 doesn't appear to share the interrupt with anything else. I really can't tell which one my graphic card is supposed to be. The network card's number is 23 which explains the "Disabling IRQ#23" message when I get thrown out of the network. On a hunch I moved the ethernet card to another pci slot but that had the same result.
>
> The sordid debian installation story for my power mac is as follows. I had both xfree86 and network working together with sarge, the 2.6.8 kernel and bootx (the bootloader). With bootx you boot into os9 and then from there boot into linux. I then completely erased os9 and sarge and installed sarge and then etch using quik. Quik (also a bootloader) allows you to boot directly into linux. Because I couldn't get xfree86 or xorg working at all with quik (similar problem with screen freezing), I installed etch with os9 and bootx.
>
> Beats me if I broke something along the way...
>
> Anyways, thanks for your help up till now. At least I know now what interrupts and IRQs are. As always, more help is appreciated.
>
> yours, rob homsi
>
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