Re: SIGILL with swcursor (CVS)

Andrew C Aitchison <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:55:35 +0000 (GMT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.neomagic
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211210844530.1203-100000@ard>
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Kevin Brosius wrote:

> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Using CVS from 2002-11-10 (4.2.99.2), on a NM2360, if I enable
> > 'Option "SWCursor"', the X server SIGILLs on startup. It works
> > fine with the same config under 4.2.0.
> > 
> > What more information would you like?
> 
> sw cursor is largely a server side item.  Do you know if it occurs on
> other drivers?  If so I'd suggest reporting this on the xpert list.

Sven Anders ([email protected]) posted a patch for the neomagic driver
which fixed a server crash with software cursor:
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/neomagic/2002-November/001201.html

It is has been submitted to the patch queue as seq: 5469
and should be merged into CVS soon.

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
[email protected]	http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna