Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:36:41 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: covici@ccs.covici.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       benh@kernel.crashing.org, airlied@linux.ie
Subject: Re: X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11
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Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> 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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