freeze with lots of usb events due to lack of x86emu updates [koolu geode lx]

Similar issues have been previously reported with the Koolu hardware. This issue also affects the Linutop-2 and Sumo.
All three products are based on similar FIC hardware. See http://www.fic.com.tw/product/minipc.aspx for details.

The main issue is that some patches against the x86emu component in xserver-xorg-core have yet to be merged upstream.

Martin-Eric, can you provide a pointer to the x86emu components? Perhaps we can include them in Ubuntu locally.

On upstream https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12642 it's mentioned:

"The driver is broken with X server 1.3 or newer because it uses x86emu whereas
all previous X servers used vm86. It affects BIOS polling in a number of ways."

However, as near as I can tell, we've already included all available x86emu fixes for -amd/-geode, but if there are more let me know.

Koolu just contacted the Geode X.org mailing list with their findings. Hopefully, a solution will be found soon. I'll update the info on this bug as I learn more.

Koolu people confirmed that the BIOS used by their hardware supplier has issues.

As per the ongoing discussion with upstream, Koolu, and Geode, it looks like a fix for this is being targeted for June, so moving the milestone to 8.04.1.

Agreed.

geode 2.9.0-1 in Intrepid and 2.9.0-1ubuntu1 in Hardy-proposed should fix this. Please test and report back whether this helps.

Hardy-proposed now has both a newer X server core and GEODE driver available:

deb http://ee.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-proposed main universe restricted #multiverse
deb-src http://ee.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-proposed main universe restricted #multiverse

Please test and report your findings ASAP. If no major issue is reported within the next couple of weeks, this will be pushed into Hardy as an update.

PS: Intrepid already has both fixes uploaded since a few days too.

Sorry, but it freezed my koolu again...

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Nome Versione Descrizione
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii xserver-xorg-v 2.9.0-1ubuntu1 X.org server -- AMD Geode GX/LX display driv

2.9.0-1ubuntu2 was just replaced by 2.9.0-1ubuntu3 to completely close this issue. It's already available in my PPA and should soon be uploaded to Hardy-proposed. For Intrepid, package 2.9.0-3 (pending import from Debian/unstable) includes the same fixes.

I tried it, no luck.

Attached my Xorg.0.log

Martin-Éric,

Is there an ETA for the upload of 1ubuntu3 to hardy-proposed? The window of opportunity for 8.04.1 is closing quickly.

leaving as 'in progress' for intrepid, since there's a report that the bug is not actually fixed.

Sorry guys, I had some more time to try the new driver, and I found that it is fixed on my Koolu too, only I had specified the FBSize options with 64MBs (which is what I had set in the BIOS), but the BIOS for some strange reasons keeps losing that setting.

So let's call it fixed on my part.

Thanks a lot

Metiu, thanks for informing us of this. Marking as Fixed now.

To fix Hardy, we still need to merge the backports I have in my PPA for -nsc and -geode.

This bug has been milestoned, but this bug number doesn't appear in any of the packages that have been uploaded to -proposed to date. Is something still missing to fix this for hardy?

is this bug still in progress for 8.04?

AFAIK what's in hardy-proposed should already fix it.

Presumed fixed in hardy-updates based on the latest comment. If you find that this issue still affects you, please reopen.