Different video chipsets, one requiring direct memory access,
	the other not?
	(Though how that helps _fix_ the problem is another matter :)

		David/absolute

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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Peter Seebach wrote:

> My laptop runs X fine.  It has no /dev/vga.  My friend's i386 laptop,
> running a cmp-identical XF86_SVGA, is unable to mmap /dev/vga, and considers
> this a fatal error.  Any ideas?
> 
> -s
>