Re: X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Mar 23 2005 - 15:45:48 EST


Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

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