From: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: X does not start. vm86old returns ENOSYS?? -- solved
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:16:03 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4177E0C3.2040200@aknet.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410211515.48035.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Hi.
Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Turned out that Mandrake was working because it was booted
> via lilo whereas "my" Linux was booted via DOS-based loader.
> When I started "my" Linux via lilo, everything worked just fine.
Have you tried the "vga_reset" tool of
svgalib? It is intended to solve exactly
that problem (but it doesn't seem to work
right with some modern video cards like mine).
> Heh. Proper solution is probably to teach X to not use int10.
It also looks like int10 module of XFree
could check whether or not the int vector
is really pointing to the vbios, before
calling it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-21 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-20 16:53 X does not start. vm86old returns ENOSYS?? Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-20 14:14 ` Brian Gerst
2004-10-20 14:56 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-20 15:22 ` Brian Gerst
2004-10-20 17:23 ` Stas Sergeev
2004-10-21 15:15 ` X does not start. vm86old returns ENOSYS?? -- solved Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-21 16:16 ` Stas Sergeev [this message]
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