reassign 426433 xserver-xorg-core found 426433 2:1.1.1-21 forcemerge 415543 426433 thank you
Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote: > After upgrading my beige PowerMac G3 to etch, I noticed that X does not > come up. It's actually the fourth report like this. Merging with the others. > Investigating closer, I found that X apparently tries to > allocate the PCI I/O memory which belongs to the network adapter in the > system (see X server log and lspci -v output below). The NIC in question > is a 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX. To make sure that it is not the > network adapter's fault, I swapped networks cards: Neither the one based > on the RTL-8193D chipset nor the via-rhine based one could be made > working. I also tried all the three PCI slots that are available in the > system. The situation for me is now as follows: Either I don't load a > driver for the NIC, and X runs fine, or I load a driver and ifup the > card, and X won't even start. Loading the driver after X has started is > no good either: My machine will just freeze then. > That's a great analysis, thanks a lot. I've been wondering for a while what was going on on these powermac G3 machine). Now, it's pretty clear. > 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev > 30) > I/O ports at fe000400 [size=128] > > 00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP > (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > I/O ports at fe001000 [size=256] > [...] > (EE) ATI(0): Unable to register the following bus resources: > [0] 0 0 0xfe000400 - 0xfe0004ff (0x100) IS[B] Clearly, this range is wrong. I don't think anybody in the other related bugs already tested with xserver-xorg-core 1.3 (currently in unstable). I'd like to know whether the problem occurs there too before forwarding the bug upstream. Could you try with xserver-xorg-core 1.3? Thanks again. Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
