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Bug#84362: marked as done (xserver-xfree86: [s3virge] pixel corruption and chipset forcing to '86c325' necessary on S3 ViRGE/DX or /GX rev 1)

Your message dated Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:06:11 +0200
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and subject line Bug#84362: xserver-xfree86: [s3virge] pixel corruption and chipset forcing to '86c325' necessary on S3 ViRGE/DX or /GX rev 1
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Package: xfree86-common
Version: 4.0.2-1
Severity: important

I installed xserver-common and xfree86-common from woody.

I tried to configure the new X server.

First, I configured  it using the "s3virge" driver.   From the messages,
apparently it recognises everything and starts okay, the mouse cursor is
moving and the size  of the image is what it should  be.  but instead of
the  grey background,  I get  very  nicely coloured  vertical strips  of
colours which are different every time I call it like this:
# XFree86 -dpi 100 -xf86config XF86Config-4

I don't think that this is normal.

Trying to use  the "vesa" dirver instead of  "s3virge" was unsuccessful,
because it says that he finds no screens to use (?).

Next, I tried
# xf86cfg -dpi 100 -xf86config  XF86Config-4

The  XFree86   server  starts  as  before,  showing   the  same  strange
background, then a  window with a white background  appears in the upper
left corner of the screen, some pictures appear inside this window, then
the  screen  goes black  for  a couple  of  seconds  and the  background
(without the  window) appears again.   Sometimes the screen does  not go
black, and the window just disappears.

On the console, these messages are printed:
 Module ABI versions:
	 XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1
	 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.3
	 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.1
	 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1
	 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.2
 Loader running on linux
 Illegal instruction (core dumped)

and then, after I exit the server with Ctrl-Alt-BS, I get:
 X connection to :8.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

If asked and shown the direction, I can investigate more.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux pot 2.2.13 #17 Tue May 9 13:12:19 CEST 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages xfree86-common depends on:
ii  debianutils    1.15           Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian.

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Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> I have not used that hardware for maybe six months.  It still works, but
> it is too slow and it is gathering dust in a corner.  If memory serves,
> I had not observed pixel corruption recently.
>   

Ok, thank you, closing this bug then. If anybody ever reproduces the
problem, feel free to reopen.

Brice

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