Re: Xvesa on FC2 and xcompmgr
Brent Cook <busterbcook-/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Douglas McMorris wrote: > 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). > > > >> > > 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. > OK, I was unable to reproduce a fix with 2.6.1 or 2.4.25, so I think my hanging problem is unrelated to the fedora issue. Fedora now uses SELinux I believe; this is sounding more like a SELinux permissions issue with the X server accessing /dev/mem. I don't know what Fedora's default permissions are, but you might consult this page for info about how to modify your security policy to allow Xvesa to access enough resources: http://www.crypt.gen.nz/selinux/faq.html#CP.6 - Brent