Re: Xorg 7 on sparc64
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 07:19:36PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today, 13 hours, 42 minutes, 29 seconds ago, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 May 2006, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >
> > >I should note that the above remark applied to 2.6.15, probably _before_
> > >running X. With 2.6.16-1 (from sid), I can observe the following funny
> > >thing:
> > >
> > > # file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libxaa.so
> > > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libxaa.so: Sun disk label 'ST39111A cyl 17660 alt 2
> > > hd 16 sec 63' 14285 phys cys, 51 alts/cyl, 0 blocks, boot block present
> > >
> > >With 2.6.15, it's now `libramdac.so' that gets broken:
> > >
> > > # file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libramdac.so
> > > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libramdac.so: sparc executable
> > >
> > >This randomness may explain why we do not experience the same problems.
> >
> > Ugh. The only thing which comes to mind is that your kernel got
> > miscompiled somehow. Dave Miller mentioned on sparclinux list that gcc 4.1
> > causes problems, perhaps you are using it to build the kernels?
>
> No, I'm running the Debian kernels from `unstable'.
>
> So the way X talks to the kernel/hardware must be quite unorthodox.
> Maybe some DMA issue or something like that?
>
I'd rather look at the hardware. That kind of problem smells like ram
chip or control gone berserk.
Seb
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