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- >>>>> "jowaters" == jowaters <jowaters@NMSU.Edu> writes:
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- jowaters> Oh, for the record ARDI folks, executor 1.2.7 doesn't
- jowaters> work on my machine either (I'm running a 2-meg VL-bus S3
- jowaters> 805 board, like others who have already posted bug
- jowaters> reports... I guess it's a chipset problem right now...)
-
- jowaters> But the X version is amazing. I'm totally impressed
- jowaters> with the work you folks have done so far. If there's
- jowaters> anything I can do to help debug the svgalib version (my
- jowaters> screen goes black, but I still retain control of the
- jowaters> machine) I'd love to help... I don't know how to get
- jowaters> any debug output from it right now though.
-
- Here's a message from the linux-svgalib mailing list yesterday, from
- one of the main svgalib maintainers. It explains what we believe to
- be the problem (cottons@ardi.com figured it out). Basically,
- `vga_safety_fork' (an svgalib routine Executor calls) is broken
- because it throws away important I/O port permissions. We should have
- a workaround in the next BleedingEdge release.
-
- Thanks for your patience.
-
- -Mat
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- From: Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>
- Sender: vger.rutgers.edu!owner-linux-svgalib
- Sender: owner-linux-svgalib@vger.rutgers.edu
- To: linux-svgalib@vger.rutgers.edu
- Subject: vga_safety_fork()
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 17:36:28 +0200 (MSZ)
-
- I was pointed to a problem with vga_safety_fork().
- iopermissions are not inherited through forks which causes a segfault
- when the ports are accessed. The segfault handler tries to restore textmode
- which again segfaults when accessing the ports -> endless loop.
-
- One could change get_vga_perm to get the required access permissions, but
- this doesn't help coz it does not care for the access permissions of all
- card specific registers. Calling the cards initialization routines
- a second time might not work well for all drivers. I don't see an easy fix
- for this problem. A new card specific driver func might be needed to
- clone the permissions.
-
- I'll investigate further, but if I don't find a simple solution I'll make
- vga_safety_fork a noop until a working solution is found.
-
- One could, however, just call iopl(3) in the forked off proc as we
- really trust it (do we?).
-
- Comments/Suggestions?
- Michael.
-
- (eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de or eowmob@pollux.exp-math.uni-essen.de
- Please do not use my vm or de0hrz1a accounts anymore. In case of real
- problems reaching me try mat42b@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de instead.)
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