On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:24:37 -0700 Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am still having horrid problems with my wife's machine segfaulting > when running any application using xv video. I read some posts in > other forums by a couple of folks stating they had similar problems > which were solved by updating a bunch of stuff, one fo them being the > kernel to 2.6.29, so I'm attempting to get that working now. In the > past I've generally done this by taking a copy of a recent .config > file, running make oldconfig and then make && make modules_install. > Unfortunately in this case when I try to boot 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 I'm > left with some messages as the X server fails to get going: ... > Fatal server error: > Couldn't bind memory for BO front buffer Prehaps you should try disabling framebuffer by removing it's kernel parameters from grub line, if it's enabled, of course. Also, there's a video_modesettng switch on 2.6.29+ kernel for intel drm. If it's enabled (by default it isn't), intelfb shouldn't be in grub at all. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
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