From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux as a minicomputer ?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:08:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020412100838.A17963@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020411154601.GY17962@antefacto.com> <20020411164331.GR612@gallifrey> <20020411184923.A15238@ucw.cz> <1018544869.962.22.camel@psuedomode> <20020411191249.A15435@ucw.cz> <3CB69032.D332FA51@aitel.hist.no>
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:43:46AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > 2) If you hack out the VT switching out of X, then still each X server
> > will disable all PCI resources for other video cards, because it
> > believes it owns the system. This will freeze all other active X
> > servers.
>
> Do X somehow _depend_ on disabling other cards or is this
> another thing that could be #ifdefed out?
> Assuming, of course that the resources don't
> overlap in any unhealthy way.
They do. Almost always, there is the legacy VGA i/o space, which is
needed to initialize the secondary card(s) by BIOS ran in vm86 space.
After #ifdefing the disabling out, the Xservers crashed reproducibly.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-12 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-11 15:46 John P. Looney
2002-04-11 16:43 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-04-11 16:49 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-11 17:07 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-04-11 17:12 ` Vojtech Pavlik
[not found] ` <3CB69032.D332FA51@aitel.hist.no>
2002-04-12 8:08 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2002-04-11 17:09 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-04-11 17:13 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-11 17:49 ` John P. Looney
2002-04-11 17:59 ` Rene Rebe
2002-04-11 18:46 ` James Simmons
2002-04-11 19:06 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-12 7:41 ` Helge Hafting
2002-04-12 8:09 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-11 18:01 ` James Simmons
2002-04-11 19:07 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-13 19:03 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-11 19:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-11 20:05 ` James Simmons
2002-04-12 7:31 ` Helge Hafting
2002-04-13 18:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-13 19:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-13 19:37 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-13 19:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-13 19:49 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-13 22:08 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-04-13 23:46 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-13 19:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-13 19:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-14 4:30 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-14 13:45 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-14 16:44 ` Sten
2002-04-14 16:50 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-04-14 20:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-15 16:05 ` Thomas Molina
2002-04-15 0:37 ` Rob Landley
2002-04-15 8:46 ` Helge Hafting
2002-04-15 9:10 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <3CBB522C.8070704@bcgreen.com>
2002-04-15 18:09 ` Rob Landley
2002-04-14 2:35 ` ux " jw schultz
2002-04-11 17:42 linux " Ivan Ivanov
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