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Re: Xorg upgrade: 6.9.x to 7.0.x



On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:05:51PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> Note the card has 8MB of RAM.  SiS folklore says if the amount of video
> RAM has to be specified, don't go above 4MB if you want hardware accel.
> I tried letting the X server autodetect the amount of RAM, and it came
> up with only 1MB.  Specifying 4MB didn't change anything as far as the
> card being able to come up and play nicely.  Below is Xorg.0.log for the
> autodetect case: particularly troubling are all the "Failed to unlock XX
> registers" errors.  Also, the "int10" and "vbe" extensions fail to init
> properly.  Suggestions as to what to try next would be welcome!

No idea about the rest, but since int10 is a PC BIOS interface and you don't
have one of those, you'll probably want to add

        Option          "NoINT10" "true"

as a start, as an option in your video "Device" section.  Maybe that's
enough to clear up the rest of your problems too, with luck.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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