[haiku-development] Re: Anyone seen this - Vesa delay
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:26:44 +0200
Jan Klötzke wrote:
> Jan Klötzke <jan.kloetzke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I know that Ingo is experiencing the same behavior. On my system, I
> > > just get "General System Error" when I try to change resolution (VESA
> > > also) during runtime. But I think if I have a vesa kernel settings
> > > file with anything different than the native resolution, my system
> > > does not boot. I am not sure, but I thought for the behavior you
> > > describe, there is a bug report, but I could be wrong.
> > >
> > > Jan, any ideas?
> >
> > Unfortunately not really. I suspect that there is an error in the
> > instruction emulation part of the vm86 stuff which confuses the BIOS.
> > Just a wild guess. I was not able yet to reproduce it on any of my
> > systems here.
> >
> > What makes it really interesting and what is new to me is that you get
> > a "General System Error". Would you mind to enable TRACE_VM86 in
> > src/system/kernel/arch/x86/vm86.cpp and capture the output? Maybe I can
> > spot something there because the traces I've got so far did not contain
> > anything suspicious...
>
> Wait a minute... I found something. The PUSHF/POPF instructions were not
> emulated correctly! The attached patch should fix that. Hope that solves
> the problems. At least it should be applied nonetheless.
Thanks, applied in r26325. Going to check out the results on my other
machine in a minute and report back.
Best regards,
-Stephan
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