Re: another i810 crash when switching bewteen X and text console
Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:50:21 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.xfree86.devel |
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| Message-ID | <Pine.WNT.4.64.0709301847220.1500@tsi> |
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, [email protected] wrote: >> I've noticed this with the Intel 865G chipset (i810 driver) on XFree86 >> 4.7.0 >> (Linux, 2.4.35 kernel). >> I've got two different machines with this chipset. In both cases, the BIOS >> is >> set-up for using 8MB of VRAM (this memory is taken from the RAM). >> 1) industrial PC : 8085:2572 with subvendor/device 8086:4246 (Intel 865 >> GBF motherboard) >> Here there is no crash. >> 2) Dell GX270 : 8086:2572 with subvendor/device 1028:0151 (Dell >> motherboard) >> Here X crashes when switching to text console and back to X. >> It seems that the Dell BIOS mismanages something ... >> The solution I found to avoid this crash is to use 865patch (available at >> http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html) and set the VRAM to 32000 >> (for example) before starting X. >> I think this could be mentionned in the release-notes and/or i810 man >> page. >> IMHO the same information could be given for the Intel 845G (eg apply >> 845patch). > The driver already does this for some chips. Can you produce a patch to the > driver that extends this to other chip revisions? I have little experience > with this driver and no hardware that I could use to test such a change. A little more digging reveals that the functionality of all the various 8x5patch utilities has already been integrated into the driver. At this point, I think a log from both the functioning and non-functioning cases would help. Thanks. 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.