Re: X bombs on resolution change with savage card

Ryan Freeman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.x11
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 04:47:22PM -0700, Ryan Freeman wrote:

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> 
> Short description: Any time a program or myself tries to change the X.org
> resolution while the server is running (modifying the conf and restarting of
> course works fine) the server will crash with a signal 11. 
> 
> Below is the full gdb log I have taken, a tail of the Xorg log (note entirely
> useful in terms of crash info) and a dmesg. I have put all logs also at
> http://ryan.slipgate.org/savagecrash/ for convenience. 
> 
--snip--
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x06175849 in SavageDoAdjustFrame ()
>    from /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/savage_drv.so
> (gdb)
> Continuing.
> 
> Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> The program no longer exists.
> (gdb)

--snip--

It would seem that after I have done this work I have now found that this
problem may be directly related to the driver rather than an x.org -> openbsd
problem. If so I apologise for the noise, here is the development I have found
on a debian mailing list which includes a patch that supposedly remedies or
'works around' the problem:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2007/05/msg00642.html

Regards,

-ryan
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