[ubuntu-x] Xorg crash on PS3/hardy

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Timo Aaltonen wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Bryce Harrington wrote:
>
>>>> 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)
>> 
>> But if you look at his Xorg.0.log, it seemed to be trying to boot vesa
>> instead of fbdev in this case.  So it would be worth using this
>> xorg.conf (or at least specifying fbdev as the driver) against Hardy.
>
> Ok, I didn't look at the log before now.. Seems that it's a bug in 
> hw/xfree86/common/xf86{,Auto}Config.c, it should use vesa only for x86. The 
> old xserver-xorg.postinst handled these right, but seems like the logic was 
> not added to the xserver code.

actually, there are patches 03 and 04 (merged in git master) that should 
do this, but something is apparently wrong. Does it work without a 
config?

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