Re: i830 driver still not reserving memory (4.3.0-5)
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:35:39PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> On 16.03.2004 17:15 Mark Zimmerman wrote:
> >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
> >> > indicate 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.
> >
> >
>
> I'm busy right now, but I could check (actually not check, just merge into
> 4.3.0-5) all changes from HEAD's i810 driver within a week, or so, and
> build some homebrew debian packages.
> I'll drop you a note, when I'm finished - maybe it would work then.
>
> - Christian
I have tried a few more experiments, with discouraging results:
1. I downloaded the files (noted above) from xfree86.org and tried
them. No luck.
2. I tried various combinations of these with the ones from ~alanh.
No luck.
3. I went back to all of the ones from ~alanh and was unable to
reproduce the partial success.
4. I installed the latest OpenBSD snapshot which includes driver
updates as recent as a week ago. No luck.
My bios revision is A03; this is the latest version available from
Dell. Perhaps older ones are better (less bad?) but I have no access
to them.
In any event, it may not be the best use of your time to think too
much about this. I'm just wondering: if this is working on a Dell
machine of yours, how is yours different?
-- Mark
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