Re: Ultra and Linux usf readonly...

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cps.msu.edu>]

Anders Hammarquist <iko@cd.chalmers.se> writes:

> > 	Neither one is answering my question! :)
> 
> Oh, come now, it's only been 4 hours since your last mail...
> 
> > 	I installed Debian in a Ultra 5 and xserver-mach64 and the following
> > error occurs:

> [snip]

> > Fatal server error:
> > xf86MapVidMem: Could not mmap framebuffer (Invalid argument)
> > 
> > xinit:  unexpected signal 2

> My wild guess is that something is strange with your kernel (or possibly
> libc). What version are you using (and what if any patches have you applied
> to the kernel)?

There are two possibilities:

   You don't have a 2.2.7 or newer kernel.

   You have extra video hardware that shows up as /dev/fb0 (the X
   server has /dev/fb0 hard coded into it - older versions had /dev/fb
   hardcoded.)


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu