Re: X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11

Andrew Morton
2005-03-23T20:41:01Z

Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > It's a bit sad that xfree _used_ to work (2.6.9?) and now it doesn't work,
> > and the fix is to switch to the x.org server.
> >
> > Do we know what changed to cause this? Was it deliberate?
>
> If I was a guessing man and I am due to lack of time.. I'd say the
> address space layout changes ..

Ow. I never saw any such reports.

It should be pretty easy to test that: do

echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout

before starting X.