Bug#426336: xorg: X fails to map legacy ROM on recent IA64 kernels
>>>>> "Brice" == Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> writes:
Brice> Peter Chubb wrote:
>> Here it is. But the problem is that X is trying to map a 1M region
>> from location 0; on this machine you can't do that safely, so the
>> kernel prevents it.
>>
Brice> Right.
Brice> Note for the BTS: for the record, see the header of [1], the
Brice> patch has been merged in 2.6.22-rc1.
>> X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol
>> Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Build Operating System:
>> UNKNOWN Current Operating System: Linux berry
>> 2.6.21-rc5-g6d40fc51-dirty #20 SMP Mon May 28 10:48:11 EST 2007
>> ia64
>>
Brice> Did you patch your 2.6.21-rc5 kernel with patches fron 2.6.22?
I'm running current head-of-tree, as I'm developing patches for the
upstream kernel.
Brice> The corresponding fix has apparently been committed in Xorg in
Brice> [2]. So Xserver 1.2 and above should be ok. You appear to be
Brice> running Xserver 1.1.1. Is there any chance you try
Brice> xserver-xorg-core 1.3 currently in unstable (you'll have to
Brice> upgrade to libc6 2.5 to do so)? You could also have tried an
Brice> earlier xserver-xorg-core 1.2 from snapshot.debian.net but I
Brice> don't any 1.2 package built for ia64 there.
I'm trying it now... (for some reason the last apt-get upgrade I did
didn't upgrade this package; I think it was blocking on gcc-4.2-base)
It works.
Thanks for the help.
Shall I close the bug, or will you?
Peter C
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