Bug#415543: xorg: xserver crashes on beige G3 PowerMac
Brice Goglin wrote:
> 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.
I had a problem like this. If I installed a nic (3com, tulip, or amd
pcnet32), X wouldn't work. I forgot the details now.
> > 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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