Re: Silicon Motion chip on amd64

[Free Ekanayaka <free@64studio.com>]

|--==> Hamish Moffatt writes:

  HM> Apparently X has an interpreter to run the real-mode video card BIOS,
  HM> even from 64-bit userspace. So it should work. 
  HM> Is the Silicon Motion your primary device or is that the NVIDIA?
  >>According to the BIOS settings it should be the  Silicon, but how do I
  >>tell it exactly?

  HM> Depends on your BIOS.

Ok.

  HM> Which kernel do you use? Is it Debian's standard or one you built
  HM> yourself? If the latter, do you have CONFIG_VM86=Y ?

It's not  a debian standard one, this patch was applied

http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/

but the  configuration is the same of  the stock 2.6.18 kernel, except
of   course of   the  options introduced   by the    above  patch, and
CONFIG_VM86=Y is there.

I've tried with a  stock 2.6.18-1-amd64 image too, but  I get the same
resuts.

  HM> Unlike some of the examples on google, your X log doesn't seem to say
  HM> why the BIOS was not detected. What does /proc/iomem say?

Here it is:

http://people.64studio.com/~free/iomem.log

Ciao,

Free