> Eric Anholt writes: > > I haven't been following this too closely, but was this happening only > > on BSDs? The VBE thing stuck out in my mind, as there was just an issue > > in DRI (the radeon mergedfb changes) where using the generic int10 > > emulation caused the driver to crash, while the linux-specific one > > didn't. I don't think it got tracked down and a later change fixed it, > > but might there be general problems with the generic int10 emulation? I > > know many FreeBSD systems get warnings in the logs about "Bad V_BIOS > > checksum." Would any of this be significant? > > It would be interesting to know if you would get the 'Bad V_BIOS checksum' > message under linux, too. If not it points to the BIOS map/read > functions which appearantly read/map parts of the BIOS wrong. > The checksum is calculated before any BIOS code is executed, it is > a non-fatal error (it used to be fatal but we found out that not all > BIOSes have sane checksums) and may (but not necessaryly does) point > to a problem. > Since on Linux both the generic and the system specific int10 modules > are available Linux users could test this very easily. > The generic module is used when the linux-specific one is moved away > (mv /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a /tmp). i have already done like this :) check out http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86&m=106577019116257&w=2 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
