Re: X troubles (xf86EnableIOPorts: Failed to set IOPL for I/O)

[Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Loic Prylli <Loic.Prylli@ens-lyon.fr> writes:

> IO space is memory-mapped on the Alpha, for portability reasons, some
> IO functions quite specific to Intel hardware: iopl and ioperm, are
> emulated in the C library. For that the C library need to known the precise
> type of Alpha you are using, it can do so either by looking /etc/alpha_systype 
> which does not exist by default on Debian, or in a better manner by
> looking into /proc/cpuinfo.

I saw that in strace but it seem to fail.

> Maybe if you have an old Milo, or for some other reasons,your
> /proc/cpuinfo is not correct. What system type does it report?
> Just checked, the libc does not understand ruffian, so if it is the
> case, you need to do ln -s EB164 /etc/alpha_systype (the file EB164
> does not need to exist), to workaround it, and we should add this to
> libc.

That works. Great. Thanx. :)

May the Source be with you.
			Mrvn