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Re: Solved: Book2 with 2.4.20-rc1 kernel doesn't use radeonfb?



On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 16:12, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> Turns out that the answer is to add "video=radeonfb" to the kernel boot 
> options.  (duh)  Still a couple questions, though:

Should not be necessary, you are probably overriding another option, 
check you don't have novideo hanging around in your yaboot.conf

> -- X works now, but still gives me an error message: 
>    "Cannot read V_BIOS(5)"

Normal on PPC
 
> -- I keep getting error messages like this at boot time:
> Nov  8 15:55:55 arcturus kernel: IN from bad port 393 at d237c9ec
> Nov  8 15:55:55 arcturus kernel: IN from bad port 393 at d237ca2c
> Nov  8 15:55:55 arcturus kernel: IN from bad port 393 at d237c9ec
> Nov  8 15:55:55 arcturus kernel: IN from bad port 393 at d237ca2c
> Nov  8 15:55:55 arcturus kernel: IN from bad port 3b3 at d237c910
> 
> Anyone have any idea what they mean?

That mean you have compiled in or loaded as a module a legacy driver
for some crappy ISA hardware that doesn't exist on PPC.

Ben.



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