On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:07:59AM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Alexey E. Suslikov wrote: > > > > 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? > > > yes, i see this "Bad V_BIOS checksum" in logs on my OpenBSD. hope, Nicolas > > with NetBSD too :) > > With 4.3's generic int10? Or CVS's? There have been a number fixes made > to genric int10 since 4.3. Same message under NetBSD, with CVS -current version : XFree86 Version 4.3.99.14 Release Date: 10 October 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: NetBSD/i386 1.6ZC [ELF] The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. Current Operating System: NetBSD calamity.sis.pasteur.fr 1.6ZC NetBSD 1.6ZC (CAL AMITY) #0: Fri Oct 3 09:56:38 CEST 2003 njoly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/local/s rc/NetBSD/objs/local/src/NetBSD/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/CALAMITY i386 Build Date: 21 October 2003 Changelog Date: 21 October 2003 [...] (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a (II) I810(0): initializing int10 (WW) I810(0): remove MTRR a0000 - c0000 (WW) I810(0): remove MTRR c0000 - 100000 (WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum (II) I810(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (WW) I810(0): remove MTRR 0 - 1000 (II) I810(0): VESA BIOS detected (II) I810(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0 (II) I810(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 8000 kB [...] -- Nicolas Joly Biological Software and Databanks. Institut Pasteur, Paris. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
