vesa driver reports many modes, but only allows a few

[Ross Boylan]

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 15:41 -0600, Pat Kane wrote:
> Could you run the configure under gdb to see if you get a better trace back?
> 
>     $gdb  Xorg
>       :r -configure
> 
> could be some xemu hw emulated hw weirdness...
> 
I also loaded some debug symbols.

[tcsetpgrp failed in terminal_inferior: Operation not permitted]
(++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#1  0x000000000051a72a in DoConfigure ()
at ../../../../hw/xfree86/common/xf86Configure.c:832
#2  0x0000000000471c17 in InitOutput (pScreenInfo=0x7d5a80, argc=<value
optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>)
at ../../../../hw/xfree86/common/xf86Init.c:610
#3  0x0000000000425a25 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe258, envp=<value
optimized out>) at ../../dix/main.c:203

Ross

> 
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 05:34 -0600, Pat Kane wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> >> > Do I need to create a complete xorg.conf?
> >>
> >>
> >> The command "Xorg -configure"  will create one for you.
> > Hooray!  With some hacking I got it working.  However, I want to report
> > that Xorg -configure generated a segfault, and I'd like to improve my
> > understanding of how configuration works.