X server starts up OK. Almost everything runs just fine. I run xmgrace (grace, a plotting package, uses the lesstif widget set). Select Plot->Axis properties, select the Axis label & bar tab, and the SERVER crashes (segfault), but only if I have Option "DPMS" in the monitor section. If I comment that option out, there is no problem. Adding Option "NoHAL" "True" to the Device section doesn't help. Linux, kernel 2.4.26, glibc-2.3.2, gcc-3.4.0. xorg-6.7.0 built from source, here is the interesting stuff in host.def: #define HaveMatroxHal YES #define DefaultGcc2i386Opt -O2 -march='pentium4' #define TermcapLibrary -lncurses #define ExpandManNames YES #define UsePosix YES #define ForceNormalLib YES #define CppCmd /opt/gcc/bin/cpp #define HasZlib YES #define HasLibpng YES #define LibpngDir /opt/libpng #define HasFreetype2 YES #define Freetype2Dir /opt/freetype #define HasFontconfig YES #define FontconfigDir /opt/fontconfig #define HasExpat YES #define ExpatDir /opt/expat Versions of the existing libraries are ncurses-5.4, zlib-1.2.1, libpng-1.2.5, freetype-2.1.8, fontconfig-2.2.2, expat-1.95.7. Matrox HAL is 3.0. lesstif uses fontconfig and freetype.
Created attachment 408 [details] /var/log/Xorg.0.log /var/log/Xorg.0.log for the crash. Used Option "NoHAL" "True" in this case.
Almost forgot: added -DHAVE_FT_BITMAP_SIZE_Y_PPEM=1 to DEFINES in xc/lib/Xft/Imakefile, otherwise Xft won't work quite right with bitmap fonts and freetype-2.1.8.
It appears to be specific to the mga driver: I have another machine with the same configuration but with a radeon driver, and there is no problem.
starting with the 6.8.99.14 snapshot, on linux systems, the X server can print its own backtrace when it crashes. please confirm that these bugs are still valid with 6.8.99.14 or later, and if they are please attach a the server log from the crash.
a quick look over the mga driver doesn't show anything obviously wrong with the DPMS support. scott, please reopen this when you have a log with a backtrace in it.
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