Bug 6332

Created attachment 5008 [details]
X.org server logfile

Partial output from "lspci -v":

0000:00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 264VT [Mach64 VT] 
(rev 40) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Mach64VT Reference
        Flags: VGA palette snoop, stepping, medium devsel
        Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
        I/O ports at f400 [size=256]
        Expansion ROM at 20130000 [disabled] [size=64K]

Can you try my probably very hairy and hacky atimisc clean-up?
Hope to have it sit in xorg/driver/ somewhere this week, but this is quite
definitely 7.2 material.

http://people.freedesktop.org/~libv/xf86-video-mach64-20060321.tar.bz2

It doesn't look as if this is the driver crashing though. Could you try running
X through gdb and backtracing it?

From memory, when I tried hard-coding the memory ranges that "lspci" gives me, 
it starts complaining about "bogus ranges" (or something similar) and changes 
IO-base and memory range, then complains about memory allocations, with the same 
end result.

When I'm home, I can see if I can get the X.Org and XF86 server co-existing and 
see if I can try both the atimisc route and gdb, then run a backtrace.

Is this a duplicate of bug 5825? I've downgraded back to XFree86 because I
couldn't downgrade to xorg 6.8.? when XOrg was last working for me. I use Debian
unstable, and although I'm not a developer, I think I could help debug this.
Though I don't know what mailing list we should move this discussion to.

I would like to reinstall XOrg. But I'll need the sources.list entry for getting
XOrg 7. and then instructions about where to install the atimisc module.

I also suppose I'd like to wait until April, after my Dad has done his month end
bill payments.

Ivan.

Possibly a duplicate. I was (possibly overly so) restricting my bug search to 
264VT. It looks very familiar, I must say.

If worst comes to worst, I'll try a "from pristine source" build, should help 
keeping things separate, I guess.

Hm. Doing a source-build was a bit more painful than I thought.

Any update on the situation?

I'm trying to get the Debian-packaged X.Org X server installed in a chroot, so I 
can then run it under gdb, so I can get a proper backtrace.

My attempts from building from source ran into "this is not nearly as trivial as 
I would've expected" (last I built X11 from source it was early 90s, things have 
certainly moved on from there).

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

Is this still a problem?

Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not
obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.