Silicon Motion chip on amd64

[Free Ekanayaka]

  AD> On 10/2/06, Free Ekanayaka <free at agnula.org> wrote:
  >>Hi,
  >>
  >>|--==> Alex Deucher writes:
  >>
  >>>>
  >>>>Yes, when trying to use the siliconmotion driver the X server seems to
  >>>>start bug hangs half way, and sucks the 99% of the  CPU. The screen is
  >>>>completely black and there's no pointer.
  >>
  AD> Do "NoAccel" or XaaNoCPUToScreenColorExpandFill help?
  >>
  >>Apparently not. I've added this to my xorg.conf
  >>
  >>Section "Device"
  >>Option          "NoAccel"
  >>Option          "XaaNoCPUToScreenColorExpandFill"
  >>Identifier      "Generic Video Card"
  >>Driver          "vesa"
  >>BusID           "PCI:0:10:0"
  >>EndSection
  >>
  >>but it didn't change anything. I'm not  an expert of xorg tweaking, so
  >>I may be missing something very basic in setting these options..
  >>
  AD> that should do it.  Do you have a log from the failed X start with
  AD> siliconmotion?
Here it is:
http://people.64studio.com/~free/Xorg.0.log.siliconmotion
in this case X  does not crash, but it   doesn't correctly start:  the
screen  is completely black  (not   even the  mouse  pointer) and  the
process sucks the 70-90% of the CPU.
Ciao,
Free