Re: [BUG]: agpgart for i810 chipsets broken in 2.5.51

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:48:52 +0000


On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:47:24PM +0500, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 18:11, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:21:29PM +0500, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> > > 2. The i810 driver for Xfree86 will also fail to load because of
> > > version mismatch (0.99 vs 1.0). Rolling back the version corrects the
> > > problem.
> >
> > Ugh, that's great. So X has to be patched every time the agpgart code
> > gets a new revision ? That sounds really unpleasant.
> >
> Actually, X is complaining that the kernel version was too old, crazy
> no?

That chunk of X code is crap. So much so, that someone even put a
comment there (not that what they suggested was much better).

See line 122 of http://www.atomised.org/docs/XFree86-4.2.1/agp_8c-source.html

Dave

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