Bug 1567

Summary:

Xorg server hangs on PowerPC if no mouse driver exists

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

W. Michael Petullo <mike>

Component:

Input/Mouse

Assignee:

Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

high

CC:

taj

Version:

6.8.1

Hardware:

PowerPC

OS:

Linux (All)

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Attachments:

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Description W. Michael Petullo 2004-10-09 09:33:57 UTC

I use a Linux kernel on a PowerPC-based iBook.  My kernel mouse driver is built
as a module.  If I try to init run level 5 and my mouse driver has not been
loaded the X server blanks the screen but does not load.  At this point, the
screen is blank and Ctrl-Alt-Fx will not change virtual terminals.  The computer
is essentially unresponsive.

In the past, a message would print informing me that my X11 server failed to load.

I am using the PowerPC build of Fedora RawHide.  I have also opened a bug in Red
Hat' bug tracking system:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133792

Comment 1 Trent Jarvi 2004-11-23 23:55:51 UTC

Created attachment 1364 [details]
log file

Comment 2 Trent Jarvi 2004-11-24 00:00:23 UTC

xorg-x11-doc-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 attachment #1364 [details]  
kernel-2.6.9-1.650_devel

This happened to me too on x86 hardware.  fc-devel system with default kernel.
X -configure sets default pointer to /dev/mouse which does not exist. (probably
a seperate bug)

Starting X results in the same behavior.  ibm stinkpad 600x neomagic.
setting pointer to

    Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

results in X starting normally.  The system is fine except it never comes back
from graphics mode after a failed start.  typing blindly "echo true" > /tmp/test
on console produces no file.  starting X remotely works (graphics, keyboard and
mouse) after fixing the pointer.

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems (former Lucent Microelectronics)
WinModem 56k (rev 01)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear
SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2360 [MagicMedia 256ZX]
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet
(rev 11)

Comment 3 W. Michael Petullo 2004-12-01 08:50:20 UTC

This seems to be fixed on my system.  I am still using X.org X11 6.8.1 (but now
use Fedora's 6.8.1-19 package -- I track Raw Hide pretty closely).  My kernel is
now 2.6.9, still self-compiled.  So I don't know what fixed this, but it is now
fixed after being broken for quite some time.

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