Re: [Madwifi-users] madwifi crashes when running in under X
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From: Norman D. \(ITS\) <n_d...@it...> - 2003-08-13 02:31:40
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"Greg Chesson" <ma...@at...> wrote: > So what, if anything, is similar between X resuming after a suspend, and > running kismet/madwifi under X? I don't know much about AGP so this is just a wild guess. If a driver doesn't check whether AGP has taken ownership of some region of RAM, if the driver thinks the driver owns it, then either or both could get arbitrarily confused. Actually in my ignorance of the details of AGP, I'm surprised that the ordering isn't the opposite, i.e. when a driver really does own some RAM but AGP wants to expand, how does AGP get told where to go? For years there has been a Linux APM option regarding X and suspend. Some notebooks need to be switched to the text console before some step in suspending, and switch back to X after some step in resuming. I've never seen if these might just be some notebooks with AGP or if it might have been a problem with older graphics interfaces. |