Re: New Laptop: i810: HELP

* Eric Anholt <[email protected]> [020429 19:54]:
> On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 13:27, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > Well with that patch, we still get the same thing, but I suspect Eric
> > did more than I did with the chips.
> > 
> > Eric,
> >    I have the I830MG chipset in this laptop, and am willing to
> > experiment and get it working on -STABLE. 
> > 
> >    I currently get a X86 Illegal opcode right after the Gamma Correction
> > message in the logs (same as before applying your agp_i810.[ch] patch. 
> > 
> >    This is on a Fujitsu Lifebook C6651. 
> 
> Okay, I poked around in this, and I have to say that where it's going
> wrong is totally out of my area of knowledge.  As far as I can tell,
> it's dying because the bios memory seems to be corrupted, or at least
> it's more than the emulator can handle according to Stuart Barkley. 
> This is strange because Linux users have had it working.
> 
> Just to make see if this is an interaction with AGP (since the agp code
> has not been successfully used yet that I know of), could you try
> removing AGP from your kernel or not modloading it at boot and see how X
> works?  It looks like X should handle not having AGP loaded, since you
> have 8MB stolen for the card already.  If it does work, you'll be
> limited in resolution, but not as badly as those who only have 512k or
> 1MB stolen.
It does ***NOT*** work, as when agp isn't loaded, it still looks for the
i810 controller and dies. 

I suspect a mapping issue, somewhere...

Would something like VESA work?  If so, how would I modify the config? 

LER

> 

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