From: Alex Thiel <stderr@web.de>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Neomagic fb driver oopses with linux 2.5
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 20:25:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3smotno1o.fsf@spock.alex.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307250050320.7845-100000@phoenix.infradead.org> (James Simmons's message of "Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:51:53 +0100 (BST)")
James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> writes:
>> The machine is a Sony Vaio PCG-505FX, lspci reports the graphic chip as
>> 00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01)
>
> My new laptop is a NeoMagic again so I can test it out.
>
>> Kernel is 2.5.75 compiled with gcc 2.95.4. Here is the decoded oops,
>> this one is with the patches applied.
[oops ommited]
>
> I did a assembly dump of my cfbimgblt.o and I couldn't match the code up.
> Strange I can't figure it out. I will try turning of hardware accel on
> mine.
I noticed that ksymoops complained about not being able to open
/proc/ksyms which seems to have gone in 2.5. Can this cause a
misinterpretation of the raw oops data?
Anyway, I managed to connect to the laptop via a serial line and hope
to be able to track down the problem a little more this way.
Cheers,
Alex
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-21 9:30 Neomagic fb driver oopses with linux 2.5 Alex Thiel
2003-07-24 23:51 ` James Simmons
2003-07-26 18:25 ` Alex Thiel [this message]
2003-07-29 17:14 ` James Simmons
2003-07-29 20:14 ` Alex Thiel
2003-08-12 8:55 ` Alex Thiel
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