On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:16:29PM +0100, Stephen Mulcahy wrote:
> I tried the latest 4.2.1-0pre1v2 ia64 packages from xsf repository
> and I'm still getting the following error when I startx
>
> (EE) ATI(0): Adapters found to be in VGA mode on server entry are not
> supported by the MMIO-only version of this driver.
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> This was the same problem I saw with the current development branch of
> X and Marc Aurele La France put some patches in to rectify it. I'm not
> sure what the cleanest way of presenting those changes is so if
> someone has a better idea of how to present them, drop me a mail.
It's not obvious to me how the patches you refer to would resolve the
problem you're seeing.
Debian's release of XFree86 has disabled CPIO in the ATI driver, which
is why you're seeing that message.
Patch #450:
This patch by Alex Williamson.
"xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/Imakefile assumes ia64
should behave the same as i386 and allows random probing or I/O
port space. In moving away from the legacy model, I believe we
should change this to set ATIAvoidCPIO to YES. Systems that do
no provide a legacy I/O port range may otherwise machine check."
--- xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/Imakefile~ Wed Dec 5 14:49:05 2001
+++ xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/Imakefile Wed Dec 5 14:56:00 2001
@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@
* ATIAvoidNonPCI necessarily implies ATIAvoidCPIO.
*/
#if defined(i386Architecture) || \
- defined(ia64Architecture) || \
defined(AlphaArchitecture)
# ifndef ATIAvoidCPIO
# define ATIAvoidCPIO NO
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