Re: X11 crashes with fatal IO error 35 on old pentium I laptop

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:55 AM, beasley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm testing the March 1st install49 snapshot on
> a very old pentium I laptop. After installing
> from CD I've package added the mozilla-firefox
> -3.6.13p3 package (and all other packages it
> depends on) with no apparent problems.
>
> When I login as an ordinary user and then issue
> "startx" from the command line X appears to start
> up normally. If I then type "firefox" in the
> terminal shell the browser starts as expected but
> shortly after beginning to try to use it X suddenly
> crashes with the following messages displayed:
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Segmentation fault at address 0x85806000
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

> vga1 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Chips and Technologies 65555" rev 0xc6

I don't think this chip gets a whole lot of testing.  You could try
the vesa driver, maybe.