Ubuntu
xorg package

hangs on Via cards

Bug #13241 reported by Colin Watson on 2005-02-24

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xorg (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Daniel Stone

Bug Description

xserver-xorg 6.8.1-1ubuntu16 hangs on my Via test laptop:

<Kamion> daniels: hard to tell; when configuring xserver-xorg, it hangs with
some kind of stripey pattern all over the screen, and switching to tty2 the
video mode is screwed (i.e. huge characters)
<daniels> Kamion: frig. yeah, I'd say I need to update to r30. could you
please file a major-severity bug on xserver-xorg to update the unichrome.sf.net
patch to r30?

Revision history for this message

Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote on 2005-03-01:

xorg (6.8.2-1) hoary; urgency=low
.
   * New upstream version (update from 6.8.1.904).
     + Contains AMD64 PCIE BAR fix (closes: Ubuntu#6085).
     + Remove patches which were applied upstream, reshuffle others.
     + Rename 000_stolen_from_6.8_branch_benh_ati.diff to #022 to better
       reflect its status; it did not make 6.8.2 and will probably not make
       6.8.3, either. Update with a fix from benh to ensure that the PLL
       dividers were always taken from the BIOS if we need to use them (closes:
       Ubuntu#6223).
     + Revert RADEONSetFBLocation() breakage that crept into 6.8.2 shortly
       before release.
     + Update Via driver from unichrome.sf.net (closes: Ubuntu#6887).
     + Update i810 driver from HEAD, which fixes video artifacts among other
       things (closes: Ubuntu#5738). CRT mode validation still broken.
   * Allow XORG_CONFIG="custom" to be passed to Debconfiscation. Leaves
     xorg.conf alone. Source variables from /etc/default/xorg, which doesn't
     exist by default.
   * Add some more r128 chip identifiers to our special sync range
     blacklisting.
   * Fix extraneous quoting in xvfb-run, again (closes: Ubuntu#5531).
   * Fix second TMDS head initialisation on r3xx (closes: Ubuntu#4343).
   * Ensure sync ranges are written out if we ask the user for them (closes:
     Ubuntu#6184).
   * Add 1920x1200 modes, sans sync ranges for now (closes: Ubuntu#6252).
   * Remove #031 (glxinfo_makefile) as it was incorrect, per upstream, and
     just ensure that libGLU is linked against libstdc++ instead.
   * Patches #054 and #055 (evdev keyboard/mouse): change "Device" to "Dev
     Device" in the options section. The configuration parser thoughtfully
     puts a default of /dev/psaux for the mouse's Device, thus making it
     impossible to specify Dev Name/Dev Phys and not Device.
   * Fix numerous interactions with dpkg-reconfigure and
     xserver-xorg.config.in, so it should now just preserve configuration
     changes on upgrades, and probe and write upgrades when invoked via
     dpkg-reconfigure and the first time (closes: Ubuntu#6484).
   * Silently migrate server symlink from /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg to
     /usr/bin/X11/Xorg, which should silence a few errors.
   * Strip .UTF-8 and @euro from the end of $LANG in xserver-xorg.config.in,
     to fix the $LANG->keyboard layout problem (closes: Ubuntu#6270).
   * Change 'xfree86' to 'xorg' in keyboard ruleset template (closes:
     Ubuntu#6477).
   * Change the default bitdepth on Savage to 24 (closes: Ubuntu#6127).
   * Ensure that we prompt at priority critical if we can't properly guess the
     keyboard layout, although we shouldn't have to guess.

xorg (6.8.2-1) hoary; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version (update from 6.8.1.904).
     + Contains AMD64 PCIE BAR fix (closes: Ubuntu#6085).
     + Remove patches which were applied upstream, reshuffle others.
     + Rename 000_stolen_from_6.8_branch_benh_ati.diff to #022 to better
       reflect its status; it did not make 6.8.2 and will probably not make
       6.8.3, either.  Update with a fix from benh to ensure that the PLL
       dividers were always taken from the BIOS if we need to use them (closes:
       Ubuntu#6223).
     + Revert RADEONSetFBLocation() breakage that crept into 6.8.2 shortly
       before release.
     + Update Via driver from unichrome.sf.net (closes: Ubuntu#6887).
     + Update i810 driver from HEAD, which fixes video artifacts among other
       things (closes: Ubuntu#5738).  CRT mode validation still broken.
   * Allow XORG_CONFIG="custom" to be passed to Debconfiscation.  Leaves
     xorg.conf alone.  Source variables from /etc/default/xorg, which doesn't
     exist by default.
   * Add some more r128 chip identifiers to our special sync range
     blacklisting.
   * Fix extraneous quoting in xvfb-run, again (closes: Ubuntu#5531).
   * Fix second TMDS head initialisation on r3xx (closes: Ubuntu#4343).
   * Ensure sync ranges are written out if we ask the user for them (closes:
     Ubuntu#6184).
   * Add 1920x1200 modes, sans sync ranges for now (closes: Ubuntu#6252).
   * Remove #031 (glxinfo_makefile) as it was incorrect, per upstream, and
     just ensure that libGLU is linked against libstdc++ instead.
   * Patches #054 and #055 (evdev keyboard/mouse): change "Device" to "Dev
     Device" in the options section.  The configuration parser thoughtfully
     puts a default of /dev/psaux for the mouse's Device, thus making it
     impossible to specify Dev Name/Dev Phys and not Device.
   * Fix numerous interactions with dpkg-reconfigure and
     xserver-xorg.config.in, so it should now just preserve configuration
     changes on upgrades, and probe and write upgrades when invoked via
     dpkg-reconfigure and the first time (closes: Ubuntu#6484).
   * Silently migrate server symlink from /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg to
     /usr/bin/X11/Xorg, which should silence a few errors.
   * Strip .UTF-8 and @euro from the end of $LANG in xserver-xorg.config.in,
     to fix the $LANG->keyboard layout problem (closes: Ubuntu#6270).
   * Change 'xfree86' to 'xorg' in keyboard ruleset template (closes:
     Ubuntu#6477).
   * Change the default bitdepth on Savage to 24 (closes: Ubuntu#6127).
   * Ensure that we prompt at priority critical if we can't properly guess the
     keyboard layout, although we shouldn't have to guess.