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 |
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| 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. +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Academic Information and | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | Communications Technologies | email: [email protected] | | 352 General Services Building +----------------------------------+ | University of Alberta | | | Edmonton, Alberta | Standard disclaimers apply | | T6G 2H1 | | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals.