[ubuntu-x] Xorg crash on PS3/hardy

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Dan Munckton wrote:

> Good news is I was able to boot X with the config from my gutsy install
> this morning. But note, I still get the invalid pointer error.
>
> Bad news is I couldn't get a copy of the xorg.conf files from hardy and
> gutsy yet because it ran out of memory and ground to a halt, and I had
> to go to work.
>
> However, the main differences I observed in them were
>
>  * gutsy one specifies driver as "fbdev" hardy one doesn't specify

shouldn't be necessary, the xserver does that automatically? (ie. fbdev is 
the fallback driver on ppc, just like vesa is for i386/amd64)

>  * gutsy one specifies a modeline for 800x600, hardy one doesn't

same here, shouldn't be necessary, unless it fails to get any valid mode. 
Logfiles are useful.

> I'll bag em tonight and upload to the bug.
>
> I will also start familiarising myself with our 'xorg' source package
> and see how we could get PS3 specific config in there.

There already is PS3 specific stuff in /usr/bin/dexconf.

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