Subject: Re: X breaks?
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 04/26/1999 17:14:18
>>>>> "Mason" == Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> writes:
Mason> (--) SVGA: clgd5430: Internal memory clock register is 0x20 (Extended RAS)
Mason> (**) SVGA: clgd5430: Approximate DRAM bandwidth for drawing: 39 of 114 MB/s
Mason> (--) checkDevMem: warning: failed to open /dev/mem and /dev/xf86
Mason> (No such file or directory)
Mason> linear framebuffer access unavailable
Mason> (--) SVGA: clgd5430: 262144 bytes off-screen memory available
Mason> (--) SVGA: clgd5430: Using hardware cursor
Mason> (--) SVGA: clgd5430: Using accelerator functions
Mason> (--) SVGA: clgd5430: Using BitBLT engine
Mason> Fatal server error:
Mason> xf86MapVidMem: Could not mmap /dev/vga (Invalid argument)
Mason> This is on i386, supped freshly a short time ago.
You rebuild your kernel without "options INSECURE", and the SVGA driver
can not cope with this chipset unless it can do direct writes i.e. mmap()
the video ram. I think that this is likely a bug.
I solved it by installing the aperature driver LKM, which I keep hoping
I'll find to make it static. And.. we probably need to PR this.
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