Package: xorg
Version: 1:7.3+10
Severity: important
the -isolatedevice option now always fails with:
Fatal server error:
Bus types other than PCI not yet isolable
No matter what BusID you specify. This means that multiseat (>1
screen/mouse/keybrd/videocard/xserver) now is impossible.
This happened a while back for the first time. In February 2008 my 2nd PCI
videocard failed so that was the end of my 2-seater.
I got the error message for the first time after a Sid dist-upgrade with
just the APG card on August 4th 2008. But at that time it did not matter.
Just now, however, I finally got additionally a GeForce 6200 PCI card and it
turns out -isolatedevice *always* gives an error.
It does not fail with xorg 1:7.2-5 with which I am running now. But that
means that only Etch still gives a functional multiseat.
The hardware looks like this:
00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200]
(rev a1)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000
AGP 8x] (rev c1)
and the pieces in xorg.conf:
Identifier "nvidia0"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
...
Identifier "nvidia1"
BusID "PCI:0:8:0"
and the pieces in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf:
[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/bin/X1 :0 -layout X1 -dpi 110 -deferglyphs 16 -isolateDevice
\"PCI:1:0:0\" vt7
...
[server-2nd]
name=2nd server
command=/usr/bin/X0 :1 -layout X0 -dpi 110 -deferglyphs 16 -isolateDevice
\"PCI:0:8:0\" -sharevts
The latter 2 commands cause the error.
Thanks
Hugo Vanwooerkom
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15
(charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xorg depends on:
ii konsole [x-terminal 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-2+b1 X terminal emulator for KDE
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [li 7.0.3-1 A free implementation of the
OpenG
ii libglu1-mesa 7.0.3-5 The OpenGL utility library
(GLU)
ii x11-apps 7.3+1 X applications
ii x11-session-utils 7.3+1 X session utilities
ii x11-utils 7.3+1 X11 utilities
ii x11-xfs-utils 7.3+1 X font server utilities
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.4+1 X11 XKB utilities
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+2 X server utilities
ii xauth 1:1.0.3-1 X authentication utility
ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-5 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-6 scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.4+1 X Window System font utility
progr
ii xinit 1.0.8-1 X server initialisation tool
ii xkb-data 1.2~cvs.20080501.1-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB)
configu
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+10 the X.Org X server
ii xterm [x-terminal-e 235-1 X terminal emulator
Versions of packages xorg recommends:
ii xorg-docs 1:1.4-2 Miscellaneous documentation for
th
xorg suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
