Alan Coopersmith wrote: Hi,
from the entry in the bug database it looks like this bug is still unfixed in snv_37? regards Bernd > A warning from our internal Ferrari user group to anyone else > running Solaris Express/Nevada builds on Acer Ferrari 4000 > laptops: > > If you're using Nevada build 35 or later, rename > /usr/X11/lib/modules/libvbe.so so the Xorg server doesn't find > it. If it's there, the new monitor probing changes introduced in > build 35 by Sun bug 6385111 (aka Xorg bug 5892) cause the Ferrari > 4000 to attempt to use VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) to get the monitor > settings after the normal methods failed. Unfortunately, while this > works the first time you do it, if you do it a second time without > rebooting in between, it seems to cause the Ferrari 4000 BIOS to hang > the entire machine, requiring you to manually power it down to recover. > Since this is an optional module, if Xorg can't load it, it just skips > it. > > This failure is being tracked in Sun's bug database as 6402721 and > is being worked on now by the engineer who introduced the fallback > to VBE into our Xorg. So far it's only been reported on the Ferrari 4000 > laptops, but could potentially be seen on other machines with similar > BIOS'es. > > [I also posted this message with a bunch of links to more information > at > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alanc?entry=xorg_bug_on_ferrari_4000 ] > -- Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/index.html M?s temprano que tarde el mundio cambiar? Fidel Castro
