Hello, I'm building XFree86 4.6+patches for a selection of computers with various video chipsets. The kernel is a 2.4.34.
I found that the patch 4.6.99.17-4.6.99.18.diff.bz2 breaks the i810 driver for the Intel graphic chipset on these two Dell computers : - Dell Optiplex GX270 / i865G - Dell Optiplex GX280 / i915G But note that this computer works well : Dell Optiplex GX260 / i845G The syndrome : as soon as X startx, the screen becomes dark and the text consoles become unusable too (but the system doesn't crash). I can see this in /var/log/XFree86.0.log (this example is for the i915G) : [...] (--) Chipset 915G found (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call: [...] (II) Found conflict at: 0x3df (II) Found conflict at: 0x3bb (WW) ****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0xe898 e: 0xe89f correcting^G (II) window: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) resSize: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) IX[B] (II) window fixed: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] and the log file stops here. Moreover, I have the same graphic chipsets (i865G and i915G) on non-Dell motherboards (MSI or Intel motherboards) and they work perfectly here. So I suspect that the problem comes from the Dell BIOS. Dell BIOSes are mostly not configurable, as you may know, and I didn't find a parameter which could be related to the problem. There are some pci-related files which are altered by the patch, the error probably comes from there. Loïc, Toulouse, France