Re: Tried it on my G5 Quad

[Michel <mi...@tu...>]

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 18:31 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Friday 15 December 2006 16:53, Michel D=C3=A4nzer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 15:17 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > > I just tried to load the nouveau driver on my
> > > Apple G5 Quad machine.
> > > The kernel module loaded fine, but an attempt to start the
> > > x-server resulted in a frozen userinterface.
> >=20
> > Actually, the logs look like the X server aborts, e.g. due to an
> > unresolved symbol. Try redirecting its stdout and stderr and looking =
at
> > that.
>=20
> No, it didn't abort. It froze.
> Why do you think it aborted? Truncated X-log?

That, and the kernel output mentioning lastclose.

Note that I don't mean a 'traditional' server abort. When e.g. the
dynamic loader hits an unresolved symbol, the X server process is
terminated immediately, so it doesn't get a chance to even try and
restore the console. So the symptoms of that can be very similar to a
'freeze'.

> The Xserver began to start, the console went black and the cursor
> into the upper left corner and stopped blinking.
> I had to access the machine through ssh to get the logs.

Did the X server process still exist at that time?


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