Re: patch 4.6.99.17-4.6.99.18.diff.bz2 breaks i810 driver on Dell machines

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, [email protected] wrote:

> I'm building XFree86 4.6+patches for a selection of computers with various
> video chipsets.
> The kernel is a 2.4.34.

> I found that the patch 4.6.99.17-4.6.99.18.diff.bz2 breaks the i810 driver
> for the Intel
> graphic chipset on these two Dell computers :

> - Dell Optiplex GX270 / i865G
> - Dell Optiplex GX280 / i915G

> But note that this computer works well : Dell Optiplex GX260 / i845G

> The syndrome : as soon as X startx, the screen becomes dark and the text
> consoles become unusable too
> (but the system doesn't crash). I can see this in /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> (this example is for the i915G) :

> [...]
> (--) Chipset 915G found
> (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
> [...]
> (II) Found conflict at: 0x3df
> (II) Found conflict at: 0x3bb
> (WW) ****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0xe898 e: 0xe89f correcting^G
> (II) window:
>        [0] -1  0       0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B]
> (II) resSize:
>        [0] -1  0       0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) IX[B]
> (II) window fixed:
>        [0] -1  0       0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B]

> and the log file stops here.

> Moreover, I have the same graphic chipsets (i865G and i915G) on non-Dell
> motherboards
> (MSI or Intel motherboards) and they work perfectly here. So I suspect
> that the problem comes from
> the Dell BIOS. Dell BIOSes are mostly not configurable, as you may know,
> and I didn't find a parameter
> which could be related to the problem.

> There are some pci-related files which are altered by the patch, the error
> probably comes from there.

Please post the output from `scanpci -v -v` on one of the failing systems.

Thanks.

Marc.

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