xServer does not start in dom0 because the intel 965GM PCI ID is not supported by agpgart in the recent xen dom0 kernel. including this patch helps: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/8/102 It solved the issues on my side. xserver starts fine now. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: on x startup agpgart reports that it is unable to allocate memory. /var/log/messages looks like that: Dec 3 01:46:07 gbox Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac Dec 3 01:46:07 gbox Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones Dec 3 01:46:07 gbox [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 Expected Results: /var/log/messages should detect the chipset: Dec 3 10:07:49 gbox Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac Dec 3 10:07:49 gbox Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones Dec 3 10:07:49 gbox agpgart: Detected an Intel 965GM Chipset. Dec 3 10:07:49 gbox agpgart: Detected 7676K stolen memory. Dec 3 10:07:49 gbox agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xe0000000 Dec 3 10:07:49 gbox [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 Maybe this is already solved when the xen dom0 sources move to 2.6.21
Could you check for sure which mainline kernel added the device? I'd rather take the time to finally roll a new kernel than start dropping in hardware patches.
seems to be 2.6.21 if I interpret that correctly: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117668200226118&w=2 can you confirm ?? If so you are of course correct that releaseing a new kernel makes more sense. You can close the bug and we have it as reference for anyone who needs a fast-fix. Is the xen gentoo kernel progress documented anywhere? I have some other issues with framebuffer and so I'm very interested in new (even beta) versions.
(In reply to comment #2) > seems to be 2.6.21 if I interpret that correctly: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117668200226118&w=2 > > can you confirm ?? Yup, looks like it's in 2.6.21 then. > > If so you are of course correct that releaseing a new kernel makes more sense. > You can close the bug and we have it as reference for anyone who needs a > fast-fix. Is the xen gentoo kernel progress documented anywhere? I have some > other issues with framebuffer and so I'm very interested in new (even beta) > versions. > I'll leave this bug open and post a request for testing in here once i've got a new kernel, I'm not sure when that will be though. Should be some time this month.
great, thx.
fixed with sys-kernel/xen-sources-2.6.21
