I am running a stable amd64 system with ~amd64 packages listed in bug #251832. x11-base/xorg-server is 1.5.3-r2. My video card is Intel GMA X3100. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge specified versions 2. Specify Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" in X.org config 3. Run X.org Actual Results: Crashes Expected Results: Starts and uses XAA for acceleration Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T8100_@_2.10GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.8 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CPPFLAGS="-DNDEBUG" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.tups.lv/source/" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ALL="ru_RU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="ru en lv" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acpi alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bonjour branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus djvu dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv id3tag ieee1394 ipod isdnlog jpeg libnotify lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection rtc samba sdl session smp spell spl sqlite sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg symlink sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff totem truetype unicode upnp usb v4l2 vim-syntax vorbis x264 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru en lv" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 183478 [details] Sample xorg.conf
Created attachment 183479 [details] X.org log
Maybe you could try with (still masked) xf86-video-intel-2.6.2 and, if still valid, send a bug to upstream: bugs.freedesktop.org
2.6.2 is the same. Filed a bug upstream: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20406
As read in http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20406 , seems that "XAA" is no longer developed, maybe this could be added to ebuild as "elog" messages suggesting people to try to use EXA or UXA instead of XAA and report problems with supported methods
I guess this is not needed, as EXA is the default - one needs to select XAA explicitly in the X.org config.
Not much I can do here. XAA is no longer the default since 2.3 or 2.4. And I think adding an elog message for that is useless. Gentoo users should know what they're doing when they're messing with their xorg.conf. Upstream is working hard to make all those tricks disappear for good, I see no need to change anything on our side. Thanks