On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:01:58PM +0300, Vadim Zhukov wrote:
> On 31 October 2009 c. 10:47:31 Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> > '2' is needed by X.Org drivers that rely on the int10 emulation to
> > get things setup through the bios of the card.
>
> And how can user easily detect that a driver rely on int10 emulation? Or
> no one should bother as the drivers will get fixed eventually?
>
> BTW, does anyone know if any other (X?) programs require '2', and in
> which cases? mplayer?
It's not the X client, it's the driver. I'd guess that setting
machdep.allowaperture incorrectly will cause X to fail very clearly at
startup.
Joachim
