Hi,

thanks heaps for this tip, after adding "NoUseBIOS"  X  appeared : ).

Have not experienced the stuff u were talking about (yet, only have it
running for 5 min), but in case i do and if I install the latest XFree
ill post the results on here.

Regards
Milos

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:45:36 +0100
Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 03:25:10PM -0800, Harry Waddell wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:52:41 +1300 Milos Negovanovic wrote:
> > > 
> > > Ive been trying to run X on my laptop good 3-4 days now (have tried
> > > CURRENT, 1.6-RELEASE and 1.6 in that order). Whenever i try to run
> > > 'x86cfg', or to 'startx' with configuration file that already worked
> > > with X-4.2.1 under Linux, i get this:
> > > 
> > > ******************ERROR LOG********************************
> > > 
> > > (II) Silicon Motion(0): initializing int10
> > > (WW) Silicon Motion(0): remove MTRR a0000 - c0000
> > > (II) Silicon Motion(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
> > > (II) Silicon Motion(0): VESA BIOS function failed
> > > 
> > > Fatal server error:
> 
> > Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> > > 
> > > ********************ERROR LOG*************************************
> > > 
> > > Laptop is IBM Thinkpad i1300 with SiliconMotion LynxEm+ 4MB VRAM
> > > graphics chip.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions are welcome.
> > 
> > suggestion 1, try using the vesa driver. If it works, you'll have a viable
> > workaround. If it doesn't work, it indicates that the problem may not
> > be related to the video adapter driver, but may instead be in the input
> > drivers, etc...
> 
> the fix is not to use VESA BIOS, that means add:
> 
>  Option      "NoUseBIOS"
> 
> to Device section.
> 
> > suggestion 3,  obtain the latest source from the xfree86.org via cvs and
> > compile it yourself. See if it still crashes. 
> 
> i've not yet tried this due to lack of time and interest but i had
> several other problems with the siliconmotion driver (i have LynxEM card
> on Asus L7300 laptop):
> 
>  - i am unable to switch back to text console when running X.  there is
>    black screen only.  the same after exiting X.
> 
>  - it hangs on apm suspend, need warm reset
> 
>  - it occasionally hangs at random times
> 
> XFree86 3.3.6 works fine for me, without accelerated mode, though.
> please let me know if you'd have any success with latest XFree sources,
> i need to use this laptop, not experiment and rebuild all X packages and
> possibly XFree86 3.3.6 again..  good luck!
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
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