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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