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Re: XFree crashing on kernel 2.4.28



Mr. Smakov,

root@ultrasparcy:~# ls /proc/bus/pci
0000:00  0000:01  0000:02  devices
root@ultrasparcy:~#

It appears that this patch will be ineffective for my problem if I
understand properly what it is doing.

--- Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Ron Murray wrote:
> 
> >   Colour me doubtful about this as a fix. Its bug report has an
> XFree86.log 
> > that actually appears to scan the PCI bus, then does lots of other
> things 
> > before reporting "no screens found". In contrast, both the logs
> from the 
> > originator of this thread and the XFree86.log in bug #280384 show
> the crash 
> > occurring immediately after loading the pcidata module, with no
> attempt to 
> > scan the PCI bus. That is also my experience, as evidenced by the
> log in my 
> > own post to bug #280384. They don't look like the same problem to
> me at all.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have looked more carefully at bug 279436. The fix which Branden
> Robinson 
> referred to was supposed to take care of the problem on sparc64 when
> the 
> machine does not have a PCI bus numbered zero. Can those who
> experienced 
> the crashes please post the contents of their /proc/bus/pci
> directory? If 
> it looks like this:
> 
> $ ls /proc/bus/pci/
> 40/  60/  80/  81/  devices
> 
> i.e. there is no '00' entry, then there is hope, that the patch will 
> actually do something useful. If there is a '00' entry, then we are 
> looking at a completely different problem.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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