Segfault on Powerpc

Ian Romanick idr at us.ibm.com
Wed Nov 14 12:55:23 PST 2007


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Bill Moseley wrote:
> I'm running Xubuntu (via LTSP) on a G5 Powerpc and get a segfault
> when starting Xorg:
> 
>     (II) VGA(0): No legacy BIOS found -- trying PCI
>     (II) Attempted to read BIOS 64KB from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:10.0/rom: got 44KB
> 
>     Backtrace:
>     0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x94) [0x10093f44]
>     1: [0x100344]
>     2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so(LockLegacyVGA+0x50) [0xf815a70]
>     3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so(xf86ExtendedInitInt10+0x300) [0xf818670]
>     4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vga_drv.so [0xf916b00]
>     5: /usr/bin/X11/X(InitOutput+0xb08) [0x1006e2c8]
>     6: /usr/bin/X11/X(main+0x294) [0x1002e064]
>     7: /lib/libc.so.6 [0xfc79380]
>     8: /lib/libc.so.6 [0xfc795c4]
> 
>     Fatal server error:
>     Caught signal 7.  Server aborting

Does it still crash if you use either the nv driver or fbdev driver?
Using the legacy VGA driver on POWER probably isn't the best choice, but
it shouldn't crash either.  fbdev should work on all of your net-boot
systems.

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