Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

2001-06-07 Thread Andrew Hesford
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:15:00AM -0700, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > I will commit it. Please send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too. > > Jean-Marc Thanks a lot, I have just submitted the patch to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

2001-06-07 Thread Jean-Marc Zucconi
> Andrew Hesford writes: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:35:06AM -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote: >> The solution is to comment out the calls to I810BindGARTMemory() and >> I810UnbindGARTMemory() in the VT-switching functions. The end result is >> that I810EnterVT() and I810LeaveVT() are now ide

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

2001-06-07 Thread Andrew Hesford
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:15:02PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > BTW, Andrew, I really hope you do succeed (esp. with the recent > 4.1.0 troubles). Thanks for investigating this! > > --Stijn The problem is incredibly simple. I explain it and offer a patch in my response to Will's messages. As many

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

2001-06-07 Thread Andrew Hesford
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:35:06AM -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote: > The solution is to comment out the calls to I810BindGARTMemory() and > I810UnbindGARTMemory() in the VT-switching functions. The end result is > that I810EnterVT() and I810LeaveVT() are now identical in 4.1.0 to the > ones in 4.0.1,

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

2001-06-07 Thread Andrew Hesford
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:59:15AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:32:50AM -0500, Andrew Hesford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > The XFree86 4.0.1 sources *did* offer a helpful hint. I have posted > > another email which includes a patch to fix the buggy i810 driver. > > Ar

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

2001-06-07 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:59:15AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:32:50AM -0500, Andrew Hesford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > The XFree86 4.0.1 sources *did* offer a helpful hint. I have posted > > another email which includes a patch to fix the buggy i810 driver. > > Ar

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

2001-06-07 Thread Will Andrews
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:32:50AM -0500, Andrew Hesford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The XFree86 4.0.1 sources *did* offer a helpful hint. I have posted > another email which includes a patch to fix the buggy i810 driver. Are you people talking about XFree86 4.1.0 or 4.0.1? Because 4.0.1 is >WA

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

2001-06-06 Thread Andrew Hesford
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:20:45PM -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote: > I hope somebody can provide more information. I am in the process of > fetching and extracting the XFree86 4.0.1 sources, I will take a look at > how they handled the ioctl. Unfortunately, I do not know enough about > the design of

XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

2001-06-06 Thread Andrew Hesford
Many have had problems with the XFree86 and i810 or i815 chipsets under FreeBSD. Specifically, the server crashes after switching to a text console and switching back to the console X is running on. Unlike versions 4.0.2 and 4.0.3 (4.0.1 magically works for me), 4.1.0 prints an error message: