Re: Xvesa on FC2 and xcompmgr

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 17:17 -0600, Brent Cook wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Douglas McMorris wrote:
> 
> > >> > 1: Xvesa -verbose returns this:
> > >> > Mode requested 640x480x4
> > >> >     0x0012: 640x480x4 Planer (4 planes) (no linear framebuffer)
> > >> >     Static color bpp 4 depth 4
> > >> > Previous modes: VBE 0x4148 BIOS 0x48
> > >> > Enable BIOS mode 0x12
> > >> > Segmentation fault
> > >>
> > >> I have the same problem.  It was fine until i updgraded to FC2-test2 (i
> > >> was on test1 before).
> > >>
> 
> Excellent. This is the same situation I get when trying to list available
> modes using Slackware with a 2.6 kernel (though vm86_loop actually just
> never exits). As I understand it, FC2-test2 adds a 2.6 kernel, no? Are you
> both newly running 2.6? I'm going to investigate kernel differences first
> if this is the issue, and see if there is some extra protection-level that
> thwarts calling software interrupt 0x80 in 2.6 directly which vm86old()
> does.
> 
>  - Brent

Just did some testing... it seems to be specific to kernel 2.6.3... when
i upgraded from 2.6.1 to 2.6.3 the problem showed itself. Hopefully that
narrows your bug search a bit.