I've emerged Xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2. However, when I try to run it, it takes my whole alpha machine down. I believe the settings in Xorg.conf are be ok. Ferdy suggested to file a bug report. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge xorg-x11 2. configure X 3. startx Actual Results: My monitor goes blank, it doesn't power down though. When I do this while connected via ssh to the machine, I loose my connection after a couple of seconds. After that, the machine doesn't responds to ICMP echo requests either... Expected Results: Start and run X :) Hardware: Digital Personal Workstation 500a. 384 MB RAM. S3 Trio64. /proc/pci: Bus 1, device 8, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c775/86c785 [Trio 64V2/DX or /GX] (rev 20). IRQ 36. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xc000000 [0xfffffff]. Emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/alpha/2005.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11.8 alpha) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11.8 alpha EV56 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe" CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.be.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="alpha X arts berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups eds encode esd font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 67420 [details] xorg.conf file
Created attachment 67421 [details] Xorg.0.log file
I'll wait for alpha to comment on this as well, but try using the vga driver instead of vesa. It looks like vesa support was just enabled in -r2, so the driver probably wasn't doing anything until the recent update.
Replaced "vesa" by "vga" in my xorg.conf file. Didn't help though...
It would be helpful if you could try some of the masked versions of xorg-x11 in the tree (6.8.99.x). If any those cause issue this is an upstream bug.
I unmerged Xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2 and emerged xorg-x11-6.8.99.15. Results are the same with both the vesa and the vga driver...
That's not good. :P Post a bug up at https://bugs.freedesktop.org and drop the URL here when you do. For the time being you'll just have to use 6.8.2-r1 or something. This seems to be a unique case as we've had no other issues with alpha so far (that I'm aware of).
Done, relevant URL: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4344
Thanks for the quick replies :) If you're feeling gutsy you could try out the modular build. You'll need to look at the dev mailing list for information on how to get it working. Modular is marked -alpha so no promises.