quit
Ah, I see the problem. I added unstable to the sources.list and
put testing as the default target in apt.conf, updated xserver-xfree86.
When is this going into testing?
Thanks,
-- DN
Daniel
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:12:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Outstanding. You've confirmed as well that your patched X server
> doesn't get confused on 2.4.x, then?
Yup, but it just tries the code that works for 2.4.x on my box, and when
it fails, tries the 2.6.x-based path. So it's blind
> 1) Is this a Linux 2.6-specific problem?
Yup, I just booted 2.4.x to check, and the PCI domain information isn't
there in /proc. It's just using /proc/bus/pci//.
In 2.6.x, there doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off from the config
interface. I manually edit .config and do a make oldconfig,
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 12:58:28PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Great! Thanks for the patch. I was unaware of this problem; I thought
> the PCI domain code was essentially functional.
>
> I have a few questions for you:
>
> 1) Is this a Linux 2.6-specific problem?
> 2) Are you the author of
Package: xserver-xfree86
Version: 4.3.0-7
The code in xc/programs/Xserver/xfree86/hw/xfree86/os-support/bus/linuxPci.c
doesn't handle PCI Domains, so the X server fails to find the entry for the
video card under /proc.
This problem manifests itself with kernel 2.6.x.
Here's a simple patch to fix
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