Re: [parisc-linux] Old but open problem of Xfree on 2.4.9-pa75

[Helge Deller <helge.deller@sap.com>]

Hi Christoph,

I think you will need to limit the XFree-86 screen resolution in
/etc/XF86Config to exactly that resolution and bpp depth which 
sti/stifb tells you. Delete all other resolutions and the warnings should
go away.

Greetings,
Helge 

On Sunday 04 November 2001 01:20, Christoph Plattner wrote:
> Hello !
>
> Starting current Xfree-4.1.0.1 the system reports the already described
>
> FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
>
> (a message not written into the log file !!)
>
> This message is written after
>
> (**) FBDev(0): Using "Shadow Frambuffer"
>
> The resulting reaction is the fatal error with an abort.
>
>
> What is the reason for that ?
> By the way, the server also reports not having
> the PCI stuff, which is perhaps not compiled in my kernel, but that
> seems not
> to be the problem here.
>
> How can this can be solved. My config uses 8 bbp, the STI console driver
> inside
> the kernel also reports 1280x1024-8 ! So this should run ....
>
> Please help
>
> Christoph P.