Bugzilla – Bug 240589
sax2 fails to suggest configuration
Last modified: 2007-02-15 09:21:02 UTC
Sax2 on Pegasos PPC fails to suggest an Xorg configuration during installation. When called later on an installed system, it says: "SaX: something went wrong while X was called with -probeonly Sax: try to call 'sax2 -p' and select a single device? abort "
Created attachment 116469 [details] /var/log/SaX.log
This is because the call of sysp -s xstuff aborted. In most cases this happens because the X-Server which is called with -probeonly crashed. The server is started on Display :99 so you should have a log file: /var/log/Xorg.99.log Is there a login possibility to the machine ?
Created attachment 116484 [details] Xorg.99.log I wonder, if it's not bug #202133 resurfacing...
Hmm, the driver doesn't know about your chipset: (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:08:0 (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:8:0) found (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:8:1) found (EE) No devices detected Something for Stefan I think
Use xorgconfig to generate your xorg.conf and make sure that BusID is not specified. Does it work for you? Attach xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log afterwards.
Yes, it works. I got some nostalgic feelings :) Attachments are coming in a few minutes. Took out glx and dri from comment by hand. 'glxgears' works nicely (480 FPS)
Created attachment 116524 [details] xorg.conf
Created attachment 116525 [details] Xorg.0.log
Ok. Probably the issue is related to the BusID line, which is used by SaX2 by default. Marcus, could you figure out which BusID SaX2 probably tried to use? So we can verifiy my assumption ...
according to comment #1 Card0 => DomainId : 0x1 Card0 => BusId : 0x1 Card0 => SlotId : 0x08 Card0 => FuncId : 0x0 this is: 1:8:0 domain is not used on ppc
Thanks, Marcus. So could you please add BusID "1:8:0" to ' Section "Device" ' of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf - created with xorgconfig - to check if this breaks it again. Attach the new logfile.
Created attachment 117041 [details] Xorg.0.log It works fine with this 'BusID' line.
Strange! --- non-working-config-file +++ working-config-file (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:08:0 -(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:8:0) found (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:8:1) found -(EE) No devices detected. - -Fatal server error: -no screens found +(--) Chipset ATI Radeon 9250 5960 (AGP) found Unfortunately there's no way to have a look at the config file SaX2 uses for the initial start of the Xserver. :-( Marcus, any idea?
Which configuration? I'm just doing a fresh network install of factory, so I can scp out any file you want.
It's a tempfile, e.g. ""/tmp/sysdata-3919". You'll need a "while true; do ..." loop running during SaX2 start to copy it. :-(
This one here could be a duplicate of #240693 I'd suggest to test the current version, available on openSUSE
> I'd suggest to test the current version, available on openSUSE Where exactly on openSUSE?
http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/repositories/SaX2/
changelog: - fixed sysp detection (#240693)
Tested with factory downloaded this morning, I still get 'No proposal' message.
(In reply to comment #18) > http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/repositories/SaX2/ > But that's x86 only, this is on PPC.
Then you need wait until it's in factory. Check after updating the package with "rpm --changelog -q sax2|less" that the fix (see comment #19) is already in.
Changelog indicates, that the mentioned fix is already there, but problem remains.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 245396 ***