Re: "xf86EnableIOPorts: Failed to set IOPL for I/O" again

[Wookey <wookey@aleph1.co.uk>]

+++ Wookey [04-05-25 17:58 +0100]:
> +++ Philip Blundell [04-05-25 16:13 +0100]:
> > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 15:58, Wookey wrote:
> > > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
> > > (EE) FBDEV(0): Mode Init Failed
> > 
> > This usually means you're asking for a screen mode that the in-kernel
> > driver doesn't support.  Check that you have the right depth selected
> > and that kind of good stuff.
> 
> What are the right settings? Changing colour depth from 16 to 8 makes it put
> the screen into a horrible mangled-screen graphics mode with what still looks
> likes text and I can only get out of it by pushing the orange button on the
> netwinder.
> 
> But that's progress - it looks like the server started. I have 1024x768 and
> 800x600 resolutions specified.
> 
> If someone can point me at a working netwinder XF86config-4 that would
> eliminate some uncertainty.

Thanx to Woody Suwalski for sening me a config that worked for him - with a
bit of merging I now have a version that runs X OK, so we can safely say
that the patch I concocted for 4.3 does work and the next update should be
OK on arm - hopefully in time for the sarge release.

> Wookey
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