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

Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Message-ID <Pine.WNT.4.64.0706302045080.164@tsi>
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, [email protected] wrote:

> Okay, more investigation on this error.

> I noticed the same message (****INVALID IO ALLOCATION****) in the logfile
> for another chipset (ATI Technologies Inc RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G
> Series])
> on a Nec VL350 computer. I noticed a beep when starting XFree86, which
> this
> time doesn't fail. This beep probably comes from the BIOS. I tested again
> on the Dell GX270 and Dell GX280 and, indeed, they emit the beep too (but,
> as said,
> XFree86 fails on the computers).

The beep is part of the message...

> I looked deeper into the patch 4.6.99.17-4.6.99.18.diff.bz2 and found that
> this
> file modified by the patch is the culprit :

> xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bus/linuxPci.c (1.14)

> bugfixes :

> 111. Various PCI-related changes (Marc La France):
>     [...]

> So it has to be reworked, I think.

Without the output from `scanpci -v -v` that I asked you for, there is 
nothing I can rework it to.

Marc.

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