* John Ames [110902 21:17 -0500]: > I was attempting to get Debian (Squeeze, latest net-install CD) > working with a Radeon X1900 Mac edition video card (PCI-Express) on my > Power Mac G5 Quad. The installer acted a bit weird right from the > start, telling me that the step "Install the system" failed (with > nothing in the way of useful error information,) but I got the base > system installed at least. It booted fine to framebuffer console, so I > set about installing GNOME on it. apt finished with nary a complaint, > but when I rebooted, I found that when it was ready to launch into X, > it choked up and just sat there with a blank screen and a cursor. > (Weirdly, though, the screen itself flickered on and off at a high > rate, faster than the actual cursor blink.) Radeon cards need a firmware. This can be found in package firmware-linux-nonfree. To check wether the firmware loads run $ dmesg | grep Microcode [drm] Loading R300 Microcode In this case its for my card as an example. [...] > For the time being, I put the GeForce 6600 it came with back in and > got things up and running. However, when I updated to Sid (unstable) > to get Lightspark working, I thought I'd give it another try and see > what happened. The flickering-cursor screen now does not happen, it > recognizes the card fully and attempts to load the radeon driver - A GeForce won't never load the radeon-driver. It is a nVidia card which runs nv or nouveau driver. > however, it's apparently conflicting with something or other: > > conflicting fb usage radeondrmfb vs OFfb ATY,Priona - removing generic > driver Did you installed both cards at the same time? > This causes the system to hang completely, such that it can't even > boot into single-user mode...any changes made to fix it will need to > be done with the GeForce in its place. > > I'm not sure what all to make of this. I've found a thread about > problems getting the same basic setup (G5 Quad, X1900, Debian) to > work, but it's a couple years old and the symptoms are different. > There's some discussion there about the radeon/radeonhd driver looking > for Atom BIOS information on non-Atom BIOS cards, which would explain > the "invalid ROM contents" message when running Squeeze, but on the This is quite normal like on my radeon R300 and doesn't matter that much. $ dmesg | grep "Invalid\ ROM" radeon 0000:00:10.0: Invalid ROM contents radeon 0000:00:10.0: Invalid ROM contents > other hand, that seems to be fixed in Sid. Obviously it's playing > nicely enough to run framebuffer console output properly, but beyond > that I'm not so sure. Does that "conflicting fb usage" message > indicate some kind of driver conflict? If so, is there a way I can > disable whatever's conflicting with it and leave only the radeon > driver in place? FMPOV this is only the case if two different graphic adapters are installed side by side or the drivesrs are loaded by /etc/modules which is not needed nowadays. Edit this file and remove all graphic drivers. Elimar -- On the keyboard of life you have always to keep a finger at the escape key;-)^
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