Bug#483989: xserver-xorg-video-savage: system freeze while starting X
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 08:30:38PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> severity 483989 grave
> thank you
>
>
> Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-savage
> > Version: 1:2.2.1-1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > After upgrading xserver-xorg-video-savage from 1:2.1.3-5 to current
> > unstable (1:2.2.1-1), the system freezes immediately with a black screen
> > (no flashing cursor) while trying to start X, without any recoverable
> > error messages. Changing DefaultColorDepth from 24 to 16 bit shows no
> > results.
> >
> > As disabling 02_temporary_revert_pciaccess.diff from 1:2.1.3-5 seems to
> > result in the same system freeze, re- enabling it for 1:2.2.1-1 and
> > dropping conflicting upstream commits:
> > a01c9d12938f977a4310e0547866f01517059a3e
> > 69eca3b8340966874ee3ffdc0d0a3f73de7a816a
> > 908b155161ebb6cd506f43a3987e4d146ef5b330
> > 88141fd21214c501cafed73b1bba084b8a2bb929
> > fd2a598e64a522c028a20444379fa200a5724e62
> > results in a working system again.
> >
>
> Is the machine completely dead with the plain 2.2.1 driver? Can you
> ping? ssh? catch the log?
>
> I was kind of expecting that upstream did not fix in 2.2.1 everything we
> disabled in 2.1.3-5. Let's bump the severity to prevent 2.2.1 from
> entering testing, it's better to keep 2.1.3-5 for now.
>
> I am adding to CC 2 person that may experience the same problem since
> 2.1.3-4 was broken for them. Joseph and Pascal, can you report back
> whether savage 2.2.1 from unstable is broken for you as well?
>
Hello,
using 2.2.1 from unstable, without problems, on my laptop. I reported
problems a long time ago, and the driver works fine since.
A few hints: which version of gcc do you use to compile the kernel ?
I remember having troubles with gcc-4.3, while gcc-4.2 is fine.
Regards
Pascal
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