Mach64 X11-driver crashes apps on launch

[schlauf]

Platform here is a 2001 laptop with ATI Rage Mobility AGP 2x Series.

lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rage Mobility AGP 2x Series (rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Device 10e1
 Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 9
 Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
 Memory at fc100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at 14100000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

X11 starts without problems, but crashes when starting other apps, such as xeyes, obconf with signal 11 (Segmentation fault).

It seems that this bug has been reported and fixed for OpenSUSE in march 2014: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865607

Any more specific reports given on request.

[schlauf (schlauf)]

Xorg.log attached

[François Rey (fmjrey)]

I also experience this bug on ATI Rage Mobility M1 with a very similar XOrg.log.
On lubuntu 14.04 it causes lightdm to enter an infinite loop, can't even login graphically.
I think this is the corresponding upstream bug, which has been fixed.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70556
Could we get this package updated accordingly?

[François Rey (fmjrey)]

Note that the workaround suggested in the corresponding OpenSUSE bug mentioned works for me:
Create file named /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-mydevice.conf containing
[CODE]
Section "Device"

  Identifier "Default Device"

  Driver "mach64"
  Option "ExaNoComposite" "true"
EndSection
[/CODE]

But it would be best to get this fixed in the code...
Thanks!

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

​​​​this driver has been removed from Ubuntu, closing the bugs