Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > So how do you boot? (we use BootX). Which kernel arguments? (we use > > Don't. Use yaboot. BootX runs as part of the MacOS startup, and MacOS sets > up overlapping PCI resources for the Mach64. The X server doesn't like > that, and disables one of these resources. This the kernel cannot cope > with. With XFree 4.0, on my Lombard, the result was always the same: > kernel panic, on occasion followed by severe filesystem corruption.
BTW reading the XFree86 DESIGN document recently I discovered that there are functions to claim resources as fixed; AFAIU that should prevent the server from messing with them. I wonder if the crashes could be prevented if the fbdev driver used that for the framebuffer device resources. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
