Hi Transmeta, the X bug and Joey, I'm contacting you as I'm not quite sure where to turn next. I'm hoping you'll pass this on to a Transmeta developer for me.
Somehow with the X packages for Debian, several laptops with Crusoe chips appear to occasionally refuse to run X. Once the bug occurs it refuses to start until you reboot the laptop though occasionally even then it will reoccur (does code morphing caching persist over reboots?). The symptoms are very bizarre but include X crashing for certain calls yet the only reports of this are on Crusoe chips so people are wondering if it is your code morphing that is breaking X some how. You can see the report at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216933 Joey Hess's comments in this bug and the similarity between all the users having your chips have made me contact you. The merged bug is at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234556 There's one that was reported to the freedesktop.org bugzilla at: http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=455 I guess I'm asking if there are any known bugs in the revision of the chip that I have (see below[0]) that I can fix with firmware upgrades or if you have any idea what is causing this bug. Is it possible there is a bug in your code morphing which is causing this? People have seen the bug on 2.4.x and 2.6.x and on a variety of graphic chips. I guess I'm clutching at straws really. Do you have any idea what may cause this? Simon [0] My laptop is a UK version of the Sharp MM10 which is called the Sharp MM1110. It has a Silicon Motion, Inc. SM720 Lynx3DM (rev c1) as its graphics card. My /proc/cpuinfo gives: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineTMx86 cpu family : 6 model : 4 model name : Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5800 stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 993.333 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr cx8 sep cmov mmx longrun lrti bogomips : 1966.08 -- ... "No manner of public opinion is likely to make me do what I do not think is right. Attempts at chastisement shall be met with flames that make your eyebrows curl." -- Manoj Srivastava on d-d
