On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:59:05PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:44, Mark Zimmerman wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I am running a mixed testing/unstable setup on a Dell system with the
> > Intel 865G onboard graphics device. I installed the latest Xfree86
> > packages 4.3.0-5 and everything works fine with one exception: I still
> > need to run the 865patch program to reserve video memory prior to
> > starting the X server. The changelog comments in xserver-xfree86
> > incicate that this should no longer be the case.
> >
> I'm not sure, if even XFree86 4.4 can work around all broken Dell
> Bioses...
>
> Well you could give it try:
> Basically, it should be sufficient to replace the following files
> (make a backup of the old ones)
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o
>
> with those found at http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/
>
> See, if it works better then...
> - Christian
Good news and bad news: It looks like it is reserving memory properly.
The old log showed this:
(--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 832 kByte
and the new log shows this:
(--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 32576 kByte
However, the X server fails to start. Here is what I see on the console:
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.