newest edgy via driver breaks

[John Moser]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-via

The new Edgy via driver breaks horribly; the screen is all black and I can't C-A-BS kill X! I'm stuck and have to press the big red button.

[John Moser (nigelenki)]

This is the Xorg.0.log, which looks mostly normal.

[John Moser (nigelenki)]

Here's my current xorg.conf (using vesa; just replace the Driver line with "via" and you've got what I had at the time...)

[Rodrigo Novo (rodarvus)]

Please attach the output of "lspci -vv" - so we can check for problems with specific boards.

[John Moser (nigelenki)]

lspc -vv as requested.

[Rodrigo Novo (rodarvus)]

Confirmed.

[John Anderson (john-e-anderson)]

same problem, attaching my lspci too

[Henning (henning-schroeder)]

When calling startx remotely I get the following message on my console:
/usr/bin/X11/X: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/via_drv.so: undefined symbol: assert

Perhaps a recompile of xserver-xorg-video-via is needed? But ldd looks good:

ldd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/via_drv.so
        linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e3c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)

[Henning (henning-schroeder)]

I can now confirm that the driver works when you remove the assert-statement in the source and recompile

[Paul Sinnett (paul-sinnett)]

That works for me too. The offending line being via_dri.c 853

[John Moser (nigelenki)]

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Ping upstream on the offending line and see what their input is.
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[Paul Sinnett (paul-sinnett)]

This was fixed May 22 in cvs. It seems the change hasn't filtered down yet.

http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-via/src/via_dri.c?r1=1.23&r2=1.24

[John Moser (nigelenki)]

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Paul Sinnett wrote:
> This was fixed May 22 in cvs. It seems the change hasn't filtered down
> yet.

Good enough for me. Now to swing it past the maintainer and see how
that goes.
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[Rodrigo Novo (rodarvus)]

Thanks for the bug report! Bug fixed as per the changelog below:

 xserver-xorg-video-via (1:0.2.1-0ubuntu2) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * Removed assert() call from src/via_dri.c

[Paul Sinnett (paul-sinnett)]

Fix worked for me :o)

[John Moser (nigelenki)]

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Just whatever you do, don't run glxinfo.
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[John Moser (nigelenki)]

wow. Malone should probably handle GPG signed mail.

[Paul Sinnett (paul-sinnett)]

Do you have a problem with glxinfo? It works fine for me - I think - on an Acer Aspire 1360.

[John Moser (nigelenki)]

I ran glxgears first, then killed it and ran glxinfo. Just try being mean to it for a while and see if it breaks. I think memory started filling up and then the X server eventually got killed when it ran out of VMA space; but that's just a guess.

[John Anderson (john-e-anderson)]

The fix works for me as well! glxinfo and glxgears works ok as well.

[Paul Sinnett (paul-sinnett)]

I can hang up the machine by running celestia. I'm not sure whether to report this as a bug in the 3D driver or in the celestia package. Are there any other programs that give the 3D driver a good test?