Problem with external VGA adapter and a iBook on 7.0 RC0

[Miguel Duarte]

But any idea why this happens?
The reason I tried this version (apart from my natural
curiosity... :p) was to see if the flicker with
MergedFB was gone.
Now I can't even plug the adapter.



--- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:33 -0700, Miguel Duarte
> wrote:
> > I have an iBook G4 and when I try to start X with
> the
> > VGA adapter connected to the iBook and a monitor,
> X
> > crashes with this message:
> > 
> > (WW) ****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0xf0000400
> e:
> > 0xf00004ff correcting
> > (EE) end of block range 0xefffffff < begin
> 0xf0000000
> > 
> >    *** If unresolved symbols were reported above,
> they
> > might not
> >    *** be the reason for the server aborting.
> 
> I don't know if the VGA adapter has anything to do
> with it, but the
> above is yet another example of X should stop
> messing around with the
> PCI as it doesn't understand half of the HW that is
> out there...
> 
> Ben.
> 
> 
> 


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