From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerone Young Subject: RE: X86_64 Xorg Xfree86 issues Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:01:59 -0500 Message-ID: <1123167719.2613.1.camel@thinkpad> References: <9588F47251E5BE4A80A34030C4A34314060C40@ausx3mpc107.aus.amer.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9588F47251E5BE4A80A34030C4A34314060C40@ausx3mpc107.aus.amer.dell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: David_Wolinsky@Dell.com Cc: m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org At the moment Xorg does not work under Xen on X86-64. Havn't had a chance to look into it...but even if you try the "vesa" driver you cannot get X working. Basically the driver is not able to get to the video card bios...may need a hypercall to do this. Jerone On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 08:30 -0500, David_Wolinsky@Dell.com wrote: > "No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry." > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Pratt [mailto:m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk] > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:55 AM > To: Wolinsky, David; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > Cc: ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk > Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] X86_64 Xorg Xfree86 issues > > > I am unable to load up Xfree86 or Xorg on a Xen64 machine. I > > have an I915 (descendant of I810) and I get these messages - No V_BIOS > > > found, VBE initialization failed... Any suggestions on how to get > > this fixed? I have /dev/agpgart for I8xx enabled as well as the DRM. > > Please can you run 'dmidecode'. > > Thanks, > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel > -- Jerone Young IBM Linux Technology Center jyoung5@us.ibm.com 512-838-1157 (T/L: 678-1157)