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

Mon Apr 16 10:15:02 PDT 2007

Wang Zhenyu wrote:
> On 2007年04月13日 10:16:13 +0000, Barry Scott wrote:
>>>> 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? 
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>> 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!
>>>>Do you need me to raise a bug report for this?
Barry