On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Roger W.Brown wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Mark Vojkovich, in a most helpful reply to my posting
> "XFree86 and the "nvidia" driver", (see
> http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-April/016928.html),
> confirmed that: "The "nvidia" driver requires that the server
> have Xinerama support". He also suggests that GeForce4 400 Go
> hardware should work with the "nv" driver.
>
> Today, I took a CVS copy of the xc directory (21-April-2002, 03:30 GMT)
> and rebuilt X11, for a DeLL Latitude C840 laptop, running linux-2.4.18.
>
> The resulting X server fails to run and the last part of the
> XFree86.0.log reads:
>
> (WW) NV(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xe00a0000,0xf00000)
> (WW) NV(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xe0080000,0xf20000)
> (WW) NV(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xe0060000,0xf40000)
> (WW) NV(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xe0040000,0xf60000)
> (WW) NV(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xe0020000,0xf80000)
> (WW) NV(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xe0000000,0xfa0000)
> (II) NV(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
> Screen to screen bit blits
> Solid filled rectangles
> 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
> Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
> Solid Lines
> Offscreen Pixmaps
> Setting up tile and stipple cache:
> 32 128x128 slots
> 22 256x256 slots
> (==) NV(0): Backing store disabled
> (==) NV(0): Silken mouse enabled
> (WW) NV(0): Option "noLogo" is not used
> (WW) NV(0): Option "ignoreEDID" is not used
> (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
> (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
> (II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
> (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
> (II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
> (II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
> (II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
> (II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
> (II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
> (II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
> (II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver
> (**) Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> (**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
> (**) Option "CorePointer"
> (**) Generic Mouse: Core Pointer
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
> (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> (**) Generic Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
> (**) Generic Mouse: Buttons: 5
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11. Server aborting
This doesn't look like a driver specific problem.
>
>
> Also, linux reports:
>
> Apr 21 15:16:17 aegis kernel: mtrr: no more MTRRs available
> Apr 21 15:16:17 aegis kernel: mtrr: no more MTRRs available
>
>
> Should I build kernels without MTRR support ?
>
You should have MTRR support. What's /proc/mtrr say?
You build this one yourself right? Can you run gdb on
the core dump and get a backtrace?
Mark.
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