Re: ATI Radeon on PC164??

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:32:39AM +0100, Heid Oliver wrote:
>
> Is it possible to get an ATI Radeon PCI card to work on a PC164 board? I
> tried it, with the negative result attached below. What do I have to do to
> get it to work?
>.......
> XFree86 Version 4.1.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.1.0-15) / X Window System
>.........
> (--) PCI:*(0:6:0) ATI Radeon QD rev 0, Mem @ 0x08000000/27, 0x02200000/19,
> I/O @ 0x8000/8, BIOS @ 0x022c0000/17
>............
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:06:0
> (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> (--) Chipset ATI Radeon QD (AGP) found
> (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
> 	[0] -1	0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B]
> 	[1] -1	0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) MX[B]
> 	[2] -1	0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
> 	[3] -1	0x86022f0000 - 0x86022f0fff (0x1000) MX[B]
> 	[4] -1	0x86022f1000 - 0x86022f10ff (0x100) MX[B]
> 	[5] -1	0x86022f2000 - 0x86022f207f (0x80) MX[B]
> 	[6] -1	0x86022c0000 - 0x86022dffff (0x20000) MX[B](B)
> 	[7] -1	0x8602200000 - 0x860227ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
> 	[8] -1	0x8608000000 - 0x860fffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
> 	[9] -1	0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) IX[B]
> 	[10] -1	0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
> 	[11] -1	0x000088c0 - 0x000088cf (0x10) IX[B]
> 	[12] -1	0x00008400 - 0x000084ff (0x100) IX[B]
> 	[13] -1	0x00008800 - 0x0000887f (0x80) IX[B]
> 	[14] -1	0x00008880 - 0x000088bf (0x40) IX[B]
> 	[15] -1	0x00008000 - 0x000080ff (0x100) IX[B](B)
> (II) Loading sub module "radeon"
> (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
> (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o
> (WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0x8608000000 e: 0x860fffffff
> correcting
> (II) window:
> 	[0] -1	0x8600000000 - 0x86ffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
> 	[1] -1	0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B]
> (II) resSize:
> 	[0] -1	0x8600000000 - 0x86ffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
> (II) window fixed:
> 	[0] -1	0x8600000000 - 0x86ffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
> (WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0x8602200000 e: 0x860227ffff
> correcting
>......
> (II) Machine needs sparse mapping
> 
> Fatal server error:
> mapVidMemSparse: Could not (sparse) mmap fb (No such file or directory)

Sigh...

I'm not sure anyone has tried the 3D-capable ATI PCI cards
(Rage128/Radeon) on SPARSE machines, mostly because the BIOS emulation
in the SRM consoles is not (usually) up to the task of initializing
the cards.

Is your PC164 SRM console actually able to init the PCI Radeon, and
give you working text console mode? If so, what version of SRM are
you running (do NOT tell me MILO... :-)? If not, what are you using
for console, a serial line?

Regardless, it's obvious from the log that the server is not doing
the right thing(s) when attempting to run on the PC164.

I don't know if going to 4.2.0 will fix things, but it might; is that
an option for you? There may be RH rpms int their "rawhide" directory
for 4.2.0, or you could build it yourself (it's not difficult, just
requires *lots* of space and time).

--Jay++

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