Xorg crashes on boot w/ vesa

Bug #107301 reported by Deafboy
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: xorg

When i boot the Feisty livecd xorg doesn't boot, it crashes. It seems that it's detecting the correct mode but the vesa driver doesn't support it. (1280x960). As soon as i switched the FGLRX driver the problem was fxed.

Output:
(II) VESA(0): Total Memory: 256 64KB banks (16384kB)
(II) VESA(0): Generic Monitor: Using hsync range of 30.00-60.00 kHz
(II) VESA(0): Generic Monitor: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-75.00 Hz
(II) VESA(0): Not using mode "1280x960" (no mode of this name)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1024x768" (no mode of this name)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1024x768" (no mode of this name)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "800x600" (no mode of this name)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "800x600" (no mode of this name)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "640x480" (no mode of this name)
(II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "640x480" (no mode of this name)
(WW) VESA(0): No valid modes left. Trying less strict filter...

Backtrace:
0: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c5d91]
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(InitOutput+0x9aa) [0x80a5b9a]
3: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(main+0x27b) [0x807456b]
4: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7d3aebc]
5: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e1) [0x8073ab1]

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Pēteris Caune (cuu508) wrote :

Exactly same thing happens on my laptop with ATI X1300, also switched to fglrx

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