xf86-video-intel 1.9.94: crash in I830ScreenInit on 965 hardware

[Barry Scott]

Wang Zhenyu wrote:
> On 2007.04.13 10:16:13 +0000, Barry Scott wrote:
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>>> It looks like as you set "LinearAlloc" in conf and use XAA, but it doesn't
>>> alloc linear mem for xaa from your log. Do you have a clean build of 
>>> driver?
>>> Try to do autogen.sh; make; make install? 
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>> I built the whole of Xorg from source. It is a very clean build. What do 
>> you expect
>> a clean build to fix? Surely a SEGV is a bug in the driver? If I can 
>> configure my way
>> past this problem I'd be happy to do that and move on. However when I 
>> run the identical
>> code against a 945 chip the server does not crash. The 965 is the 
>> variable here.
>>
>>     
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> oh, yes, that's a bug on G965. We will not alloc xaa_linear mem for LinearAlloc
> on 965, as in i830_allocate_overlay we return when chip is 965G. I think we
> should remove that chip type check. 
>
> Thanks for report this!
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Do you need me to raise a bug report for this?

Barry