Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:16:03 +0400 | From | Stas Sergeev <> | Subject | Re: X does not start. vm86old returns ENOSYS?? -- solved |
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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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