Hi Joss assigned me these two bugs[1] (currently merged) for the bug sprint[2]. As I lack proper SPARC hardware to investigate this myself, I need your help.
The two bugs are about X Server Crashes on SPARCs with PCI ATI Mach64 cards. The most probable cause of the crash is an incompatible kernel change introduced with kernel 2.6.26. For #500358 I'm quite sure that it' caused by the kernel change. For #488669 I'm not quite sure if it's really the same bug, because the original reporter ran kernel 2.6.24 which predates the kernel change. For more information about the kernel change see: http://marc.info/?t=121247857800001&r=1&w=2 If the crash is really caused by the kernel change, the real bug is in the X server. But to fix it, we would have to upgrade to xserver-xorg-core 1.5. I don't think that this is really an option. The other options would be to revert the kernel change or to release with a non-working X server for some SPARC machines. Unless of course we find someone willing and able to fix the X server in lenny to work with the kernel change. A simple backport of the changes in 1.5 doesn't seem to be possible. I would like you to test two things: 1. Install the kernel package from http://people.debian.org/~gaudenz/sparc and test if this fixes the problem. This is the same kernel as currently in unstable with the problematic change removed. Please also test this kernel if you are not affected by the change to see if the removal of the problematic change has any ill side effects. 2. Install xserver-xorg-core and xserver-xorg-video-mach64 from experimental and run this on a kernel 2.6.26 or later without removing the change. This should also fix the problem. Thanks for you help Gaudenz Please CC me on any replies to the mailinglists. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/488669 http://bugs.debian.org/500358 [2] http://wiki.debian.org/BugSprint -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
