5.2.1 X problems with Vaio laptop

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 09 March 2004 01:56 am, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
> > >Yes.  Try disabling DRM and seeing if it works better.
> >
> > I commented out the 'dri' option in my XF86Config and now everything is
> > fine.
>
> good catch : I had the same issue, and now I can use the firewire port and
> X11 at the same time on my notebook  thanks a bunch

It seems that many BIOS's do not route the VGA devices interrupt correctly.  
Try checking to see if your BIOS has a setting for 'Assign IRQ to VGA' or 
some such and if so make sure it is on.

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