Re: PC164 sparse mem problem with RedHat rawhide XFree86 4.2.0-7

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>]

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:39:08PM -0700, Bob Lindell wrote:
>
> I tried to change out my video card and install a SiS 6326.  SRM likes
> it, but XFree86 doesn't.  I suspect it is related to the sparse memory
> muck on this machine.
> 
> ...
> (II) Machine needs sparse mapping
> (II) mapVidMemSparse: mapped Base 0xa0000 size 0x10000 to DENSE only at 0x2ff000a0000
> ...
> Fatal server error:
> xf86MapVidMemSparse: Could not (dense) mmap fb (No such file or directory)
> 
> Barring a known fix, would I have better luck trying to use this card
> in my 164lx?

Perhaps; certainly worth a try if reasonably easy to do, since there's
no need for the SPARSE-related stuff on an LX...

> (--) SIS(0): Video BIOS version ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ detected
> (--) SIS(0): Detected unknown bridge type (7)

Not sure what the above are telling us, but it seems suspicious...

> (II) SIS(0): initializing int10
> 
> Fatal server error:
> xf86MapVidMemSparse: Could not (dense) mmap fb (No such file or directory)

Hmmm; not a good sign, I think it was trying to do the BIOS emulation
and failed during the setup.

 --Jay++

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