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). Egbert. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
