Bug 10706

Summary: xorg.conf file crashes server with old syntax.
Product: xorg Reporter: Colin Guthrie <colin>
Component: Driver/intelAssignee: Eric Anholt <eric>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Colin Guthrie 2007-04-21 09:32:30 UTC 
Having just packaged up the latest 1.3 / 2.0 versions of server/driver, some users reported crashes when running the new code with there old config.

One user reported that removing the line "Screen "xxx" Rightof "yyy"" solved the crash.  Obviously this isn't needed anymore but it shouldn't crash the server.

Apologies if this is a red herring.

See http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30361 for a more detailed listing and links to backtraces etc.
Comment 1 Colin Guthrie 2007-04-21 09:42:18 UTC 
Created attachment 9674 [details]
User's log

The log file of the user who had this problem.
Comment 2 Colin Guthrie 2007-04-21 09:43:58 UTC 
The user posted his Xorg.conf here: http://troumad.developpez.com/linux/serveurx/xorg/#L2.1

But the relevent section appears to be his serverlayout which was:
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "double"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "SynapticsMouse1" "AlwaysCore"
    Screen "screen1"
    Screen "screen2" RightOf "screen1"
    Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection
Comment 3 Colin Guthrie 2007-04-23 01:34:23 UTC 
As someone pointed out, "man xorg.conf" still says the "Screen xxx LeftOf yyy" syntax is OK.... If it has been deprecated it should be removed from the docs ;)
Comment 4 Eric Anholt 2007-08-09 15:08:45 UTC 
consolidating xinerama crash bugs

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10299 ***

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