Re: XFree86 4 on RiscPC
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:13:22PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >xf86EnableIOPorts: Failed to set IOPL for I/O
> >
> >what does this mean? Did I get something else wrong in the Y/N questions
> >for the config?
>
> Uh, oh dear. It seems to be trying to turn on access to ISA I/O ports. I'll
> have a think about how best to avoid that.
Surely fbdev is being very dense if it's doing that?
1: Why would it need to turn on anything, as it's only talking to the kernel
2: Surely it's not just an arm thing, as other hardware doesn't have ISA
[I'd guess Amigas don't, and I'd assume that fbdev should work on them]
Nicholas Clark
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