Re: motherboards

[ludovic p. <pl...@nn...>]

An option to enable/disable the vga state save/restore would be usefull !
(At least with 2.4 kernel ) Could you send a patch ?

Ludovic Pollet


Le jeudi 4 Novembre 2004 12:32, Ander Conselvan de Oliveira a =E9crit :
> I was debugging the X server with two pci sis315pro cards, and I found
> that the computer hangs when the server tries to access the vga memory
> to save the vga state. The problem appears to be that no matter what
> card is being started, the server always tries to save the state of the
> primary vga card. Removing the lines that save and restore the vga stat=
e
> I could init the two servers.
>
> Ander
>
> Observer wrote:
> > I found that some motherboards at incompatible with ruby at some degr=
ee,
> > running 2 xservers using the same driver will hang the system, have a=
ny
> > of you have this problem?
> > I have only some old motherboards where i have get a usable
> > configuration, but i would like to know about some recent working mod=
els
> > so i can change the one i have, any suggestions?
> > I think the problem is part xfree and part the bios, the system cant
> > allocate resources for the cards, when running a "normal" xfree
> > multihead configuration the server resolves any conflict and it works
> > fine but running whit SingleCard or IsolateBus the system hangs when =
the
> > second copy of the same config is loaded and before any log is writte=
n
> > to disk, I have debugged the server but i havent found the exact line
> > where it hangs (I think it hangs after the actual error has happened)=
.
> > I'm attaching the output of dmesg and lspci -v in case someone can he=
lp
> > me out with this.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
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