Re: New Laptop: i810: HELP

On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 15:41, Stuart Barkley wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> 
> > * John Utz <[email protected]> [020429 12:02]:
> > > well xf86 reports an illegal opcode. that's bad.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that is the primary problem.  I have a similar problem
> with a Toshiba Satellite 1005-S157.  These notes are based upon my
> memory from troubleshooting a few monthes ago.
> 
> > Here is the latest log for reference:
> >
> > XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
> > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
> > Release Date: 18 January 2002
> > 	If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
> > 	newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
> > 	reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
> > Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.5 i386 [ELF]
> > Module Loader present
> > ...
> > (WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
> > ...
> > c000:01a2: 62 ILLEGAL X86 OPCODE!
> 
> I think both of these messages are related to the problem.  I'm not
> positive if there is a problem mapping the video BIOS or if the video
> BIOS actually has an invalid checksum.
My gut feeling, since XP was running just ducky, is that there is a
mapping issue here.  I've gotten in touch with Eric Anholt who seems to
be working on the I830MG stuff in the agp.ko module. 

> 
> Looking at the XFree 4.2 code, It looks like there is an internal
> 80x86 machine emulator used to switch screen modes.  I added some
> trace code to XFree86 and it looked like reasonable code up to this
> point.  Opcode 0x62 is not implemented in the emulator, but I added
> crude emulation for it and got a little farther in the execution
> before things died again.
> 
> I needed to get some specific work done so I loaded RedHat 7.2 on
> another partition and have been using that for a while.  Last week I
> started working with FreeBSD again and the audio problems seem to be
> resolved in -stable, leaving X as my last major stumbling block (apm
> and a few other things also had/have problems).
Thanks for the reply. 


> 
> Stuart
> -- 
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