X segfaults starting video on Intel 915GM

Ken Mandelberg km at mathcs.emory.edu
Mon May 26 14:48:18 PDT 2008


Actually, I run the same OS and video software on another box with a
945GM and the X server never segfaults, which suggests its something 
about the driver and the 915.


Ben Gamari wrote, On 05/26/08 17:04:
> I would definitely open an Ubuntu bug report on that. Sounds like
> something they'd want to know about. Regardless, I'm on a i965 running
> git master xserver/mesa and have never experienced such behavior.
> 
> - Ben
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 15:51 -0400, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
>> My X server periodically segfaults starting a video (myth, xine, etc). 
>> Its not any particular video, often I run the one that triggered the 
>> segfault after restarting the X server and it runs fine.
>>
>> The log shows
>>
>> Backtrace:
>> 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c780e]
>> 1: [0xb7ee8420]
>> 2: /usr/bin/X [0x80da805]
>> 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so(XvdiPutImage+0x178) 
>> [0xb7b50608]
>> 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so [0xb7b53476]
>> 5: /usr/bin/X [0x81506de]
>> 6: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x2cf) [0x808d8df]
>> 7: /usr/bin/X(main+0x48b) [0x807471b]
>> 8: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7c79450]
>> 9: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x201) [0x8073a91]
>>
>>



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