RE: Need Help with ATI Graphic Card bring up
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:55 -0700, Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh) wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michel Dänzer [mailto:daenzer@debian.org]
> >
> >> /dev/psaux is the same as /dev/input/mice with 2.6 kernels,
> > but of course it still requires the device node to actually
> > exist, which doesn't seem the case here. There should be
> > plenty of documentation on how to configure the mouse
> > properly, and in the meantime you could try starting the X
> > server with -allowMouseOpenFail to ignore a broken mouse
> > configuration.
> >
> > Unfortunately though, it doesn't look like the video driver
> > calls the video BIOS to initialize the graphics card, so I'm
> > afraid it still won't work. You may need to try newer X.org
> > releases or hack the driver.
> >
> Hi,
> I am working on a legacy system, my last attempt will be to upgrade to X.org.
> However if you do not mind be more specific about what hack in the driver I need.
Basically, make sure the int10/VBE initialization calls aren't disabled.
> I did changed the kernel to include x86 bios emulation
Never heard of that... if it does what it sounds like, are you able to
get radeonfb working?
> I thing the driver is able to talk to the card, but not sure, this
> time I am getting segmentation failure.
You'd have to get a backtrace with gdb to see what causes that.
> I have attached the new files, please if you could let me know if I am
> still stuck with BIOS issue?
I'm afraid so:
> (--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 8192 kByte (64 bit SDR SDRAM)
I don't think the card has only 8 MB of video RAM? I suspect this is due
to the memory size register being uninitialized as 0, which causes the
driver to assume it's 8 MB (because there were production M6 cards that
incorrectly reported 0 instead of 8 MB). This indicates that the video
BIOS hasn't initialized the card.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com
Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
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