Re: XFree 4.0 crashes with SRM

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

FWIW..I'm starting X via GDM, do not have the MVI patch, have a voodoo3
and it all works fine....wierd.

--rdp

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Craig P Prescott wrote:

> 
> Hi;
> 
> Jeff Sturm wrote:
> > David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> > > 
> > > Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@appnet.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Thanks Rich.  I ran XFree86 under gdb (remotely) to get some better
> > > > data.  It dies with a SIGILL in miIntersect():
> > > >
> > > > 0x120178258 <miIntersect+280>:        maxsw4  t6,t1,t1
> > > >
> > > > That mean anything to anybody?  I'm using SRM V5.6-3, kernel 2.2.14.
> > > 
> > > Yup.  SRM on the SX disables the MVI instructions.  Try this patch
> > > (from Ivan Koshaysky via linux-alpha@vger):
> > 
> > Yay!  It works.  For a moment I was worried I'd have to go back to MILO,
> > or cripple my X server... that Voodoo3 sure is *fast* on 4.0.
> 
> Excellent!  I had thought of this, but discounted it.  Maybe someone
> can explain the following...
> 
> When I initially build XFree 4.0.0, I did not have the MVI patch in my
> kernel.  After I applied the MVI patch, I rebuilt XFree and friends
> from scratch.  Everything seemed to work just fine in both cases...
> 
> Hummm - before I applied the MVI patch, I was starting X from the
> command line via "startx" rather than from xdm in inittab?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Craig
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Rich Payne
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