Matrox Mystique video card on HP Visualize 785/B2000 with rebuilt 2.6.11-rc6-pa1 kernel
Hi,
I have set up successfully a Matrox Millennum II PCI video card on an HPPA
RISC B2000 workstation. I now able to connect an HP910 to the Matrox
Millennum video port running as a text console. (Yet to figure out how to
configure X Windows.)
However when I plugged in a Matrox Mystique video card (also configured as
a module in the kernel) the kernel fail to bring it up with the following
error msgs:
matroxfb: Matrox Mystique (PCI) detected
matroxfb: Cannot determine memory size
matroxfb: probe of 000:01:04.0 failed with error -1
and the kernel booted up normally. Any idea what happened?
The basic h/w configuration are as follows:
1) HP Visualize 785/B2000 with 256 MB of memory, 400 MHz processor & 10 GB
disk;
2) HP 910 monitor connected to a STI fxe video card (in trouble, I switched
to ttys0 as the console);
3) Additional Matrox Mystique video card with no monitor connected;
4) No HP/UX. Only Debian GNU/Linux;
Software configuration:
5) Sarge distribution from 27 April ISO images were used for the base
installation;
6) All packages installed updated/upgraded to the latest available
(regardless bugs or no bugs, 14 June?);
7) No security updates applied as security.debian.org site can't be
accessed for some reasons;
8) Kernel source from "linux-2.6.12-rc6-pa1.tar.bz2";
Built the kernel using instructions from "PARISC-LINUX: Building The Kernel
documentation" by following their "The Old, Grotty Way To Build a Kernel"
and chose to compile the Matrox acceleration, Matrox Millennum II &
Mystique and Trident supports into the Kernel as modules. I have also
created the initial RAM disk by "mkinitrd -o
/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc6-pa1/initrd.img-2.6.12-rc6-pa1 2.6.12-rc6-pa1".
Rgds,
Lee
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