On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 @ 9:54am (+0100), Carpenter, Steve wrote:

CS> Chris,
CS>
CS> >>I've found a work-around for avoiding the BIOS call-- Option "NoINT10".
CS>

...how is this all possibe?  Shouldn't the kernel be preventing this?  I
honestly don't understand how the X server talks to the framebuffer, but it
would seem to me that these are relatively common hardware combinations.

-lava

CS>   I have the same problem with a 2940 and a Nvidia GeForce3 Ti 200. I see from the XFree86 web site that there have been many fixes libint10 since the 4.2 release. If BT ever get my ADSL connection installed (they've ben saying "tomorrow" for a week now) I'll try compiling their fixes into an Xserver and test.
CS>
CS> Regards,
CS>
CS> Stephen.
CS>

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