No X server on Alpha?

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:

> David O'Brien wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:42:05AM -0600, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>> After forcing xorg-server to link -lio, everyone works perfectly. I even 
>>> have Firefox (1.5) and pidgin running without issue. And with the recent 
>> 
>> Can you send a patch in to fix the port(s)?
>
> Unfortunately, my Alpha has some hardware issue and will no longer boot. It

[snip]

The issue was faulty RAM, and the machine now runs stably. Is a patch 
still needed?

Also, a summary of bugs using my alpha as a workstation:
1. X.org doesn't compile because of the mentioned libio issue.
2. Occasional vector 670 machine checks associated with sio(4):

unexpected machine check:

     mces    = 0x1
     vector  = 0x670
     param   = 0xfffffc0000006068
     pc      = 0xfffffc0000847184
     ra      = 0xfffffc0000847160
     curproc = 0xfffffc001f5677a0
         pid = 11, comm = swi4: clock sio

The manual says this has to do with cache or TLB errors, or writes to 
invalid I/O addresses.

3. pidgin hangs while trying to autodetect my IP address, but works if I 
tell it not to.

Other than that, everything is stable and works fine (even Firefox, 
which has historically had problems on LP64 systems). Having the Pyxis
DMA bug gone is really fantastic. Since this machine is way quieter than 
my x86, I'm going to use it as my primary machine for the near future -- 
I'm writing this email on it right now, in fact.
-Nathan