Re: XFree86 4.1.0: call for help

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@iogram.ch>]

"Jason E. Stewart" wrote:
> 
> "Ani Joshi" <ajoshi@shell.unixbox.com> writes:
> 
> > I looked into the situation and found out why its crashing on your
> > machine.  The vgaHW pointer is not setting the IOBase, so when it
> > tries to read that it crashes.  Do this in r128_driver.c:
> >
> > after the hwrec is alloced (vgaHWGetHWRec())
> >
> > {
> >       vgaHWPtr hwp;
> >
> >       vgaHWGetIOBase(hwp);
> > }
> >
> > (should probably add vgaHWGetIOBase to the loader symlist also)
> >
> > This should probably solve your problem.
> 
> Michel,
> 
> Is this fix sufficient to get get 'Option "Display" "CRT"' working?

If it indeed allows the server to start without Option "UseFBDev": yes. Can't
hurt to try I guess... BenH seemed to suggest that it really can't work this
way though.


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