Re: AlphaStation 500 MILO problems + Voodoo questions
Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 12:26:39AM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > I briefly tried the digital output on an AGP Radeon 7500 in an
> > UP1500, but X 4.2.1 said:
> >
> > (II) RADEON(0): No legacy BIOS found -- trying PCI
>
> Well, for whatever reason, not being able to read the BIOS will cause
> a LOT of problems. I assume these error messages don't appear when the
> card is configured for CRT output?
Yes they do:
(II) RADEON(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000
(II) RADEON(0): PCI bus 1 card 5 func 0
(**) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps)
(==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(**) RADEON(0): Option "CrtScreen"
(==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 888
(II) RADEON(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
(II) RADEON(0): initializing int10
(II) RADEON(0): No legacy BIOS found -- trying PCI
(EE) RADEON(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (5)
(WW) RADEON(0): Restoring MEM_CNTL (00000000), setting to 2e002e01
(WW) RADEON(0): Restoring CONFIG_MEMSIZE (08000000), setting to 08000000
(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon 7500 QW (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x5157)
(--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xe0000000
(--) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0xd8000000
(--) RADEON(0): BIOS at 0xf0000000
(--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM)
(WW) RADEON(0): Video BIOS not detected in PCI space!
(WW) RADEON(0): Attempting to read Video BIOS from legacy ISA space!
(WW) RADEON(0): Video BIOS not found!
(II) RADEON(0): initializing int10
(II) RADEON(0): No legacy BIOS found -- trying PCI
(EE) RADEON(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (5)
(WW) RADEON(0): Video BIOS not detected, using default PLL parameters!
(II) RADEON(0): PLL parameters: rf=2700 rd=67 min=12500 max=35000; xclk=16615
(==) RADEON(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) RADEON(0): Sampo: Using hsync range of 30.00-65.00 kHz
(II) RADEON(0): Sampo: Using vrefresh range of 56.00-75.00 Hz
(II) RADEON(0): Clock range: 12.50 to 350.00 MHz
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x350" (vrefresh out of range)
[...]
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range)
(--) RADEON(0): Virtual size is 1280x1024 (pitch 1280)
(**) RADEON(0): Default mode "1280x1024": 108.0 MHz, 64.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz
> I'd love to look further into this, as we have seen such problems on
> our AGP boxes, but the best I can do is UP1100, and its BIOS emulator
> cannot handle any Radeons, AFAICT... :-(
>
> > Analog works fine if I add Option "CrtScreen"...
>
> I haven't used 4.2.1 or 4.3.0 much at all yet; do they force one to
> add that option by defaulting to the DVI connector?
It looks like it, at least it won't work without that option.
--
Falk
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