kernel panic starting XFree86 4.0.1 / Voodoo3 on 2.4-test9 -

[Kostas Gewrgiou]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 phandel at cise.ufl.edu wrote:

>
> I have been successfully using Ani's penguinppc.org::xfree86-pmac tree
> with my Voodoo3 card with a stable 2.2 series kernel (from
> ppc.samba.org::linux-pmac-stable, with the voodoo3 driver from the 2.3
> series).  Today I tried the 2.4-test9 kernel from
> ppc.samba.org::linux-pmac-devel and got the following panic while trying
> to startx:
...
> >From the System.map:
> c00f9fb4 t atyfb_get_var
> c00fa018 t atyfb_set_disp
> c00fa17c t atyfb_set_var
> c00fa388 t atyfb_pan_display
> c00fa410 t atyfb_get_cmap
> c00fa500 t atyfb_set_cmap
>
>
> When I tell XFree86 to use the ATI card instead (via "Screen 1" instead
> of "Screen 2" at the end), it works fine.
>

  The tdfxfb driver doesn't use resource management yet, as a result both
offb and tdfxfb drive the same card, this might be the cause of your
problems.


 Kostas


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