Re: X does not start. vm86old returns ENOSYS?? -- solved

[Stas Sergeev]

Hi.

Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Turned out that Mandrake was working because it was booted
> via lilo whereas "my" Linux was booted via DOS-based loader.
> When I started "my" Linux via lilo, everything worked just fine.
Have you tried the "vga_reset" tool of
svgalib? It is intended to solve exactly
that problem (but it doesn't seem to work
right with some modern video cards like mine).

> Heh. Proper solution is probably to teach X to not use int10.
It also looks like int10 module of XFree
could check whether or not the int vector
is really pointing to the vbios, before
calling it.

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