The patch below fixes my problem with the permedia 2 driver.
A big thank you to Dr.Glibert and Michel Danzer who helped me
out alot with this.
Peter
-- www.alphalinux.org Peter Petrakis Warrior/Engineer ppetrakis@alphalinux.org "Oh my God! They killed Xena! You bastards!!" "<BLAM!!> Who the hell are you!? Name's Ash <click clock> Housewares..."---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:12:45 -0800 (PST) From: Michel Dänzer <mdaenzer@yahoo.com> Reply-To: michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch To: Peter Petrakis <ppetrakis@firestorm.tzo.org> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: ev56 mga issues
--- Peter Petrakis <ppetrakis@firestorm.tzo.org> wrote: > > That's possible (seems like it's at least in the latest 2.2.15-pre . > > > > Anyway, unfortunately it doesn't seem to help according to others... > > > > I'm sorry but I really can't help you more ATM. > > I'll grab the latest 2.2.x kernel and try again with fb support. More > people are starting to have this problems. Hopefully with enough eyes the > bug will be found :-). Thanks.
That's alwaysa good method :)
In case you'd like to try more, maybe this patch for the X server can help?
--- Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c.orig Sat Feb 26 05:43:53 2000 +++ Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_video.c Thu Mar 16 00:37:34 2000 @@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ # define isJensen (!_bus_base()) # endif -# define needSparse (_bus_base_sparse() != 0) +# define needSparse (0) -# define BUS_BASE _bus_base() +# define BUS_BASE (_bus_base() + 0x200000000) #else
It apparently solves the problem for Hannes Reinecke.
Michel
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