Hi Damien,
On 12 Aug 2002, Damien Miller wrote:
> I am trying to get my X on my Asus-L1000B laptop (which uses the i830M
> chipset) running. I am using OpenBSD-current, which has AGP support
> which I am lead to believe is necessary to operate the card.
>
> When I try to run X with the attached config file (generated from X
> -configure), I get illegal instruction errors in the VESA bios. Which
> drops me back to a (corrupted) text console.
>
> I am running with machdep.allowaperature=2, so this shouldn't be caused
> by lack of permission. Trying the vesa driver instead of the i810 driver
> leads to similar errors.
>
> Can anyone offer any insight? I'd really love to see X working.
Perhaps this bit of your logs is relevant:
(WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
Could there be something dodgy in the underlying system?
Are there any system diags you can run? Could it need a BIOS
upgrade/reflash? Is this machine known to work with any other, er,
"operating systems"?
HTH,
Neale.
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