[ubuntu-x] Xorg crash on PS3/hardy

[Timo Aaltonen]

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.

> Perhaps some PS3 stuff got dropped during the dexconf cleanup work?

I've checked and they seem to be there..

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