RE: ATI Radeon on PC164??

[Heid Oliver <oliver heid siemens com>]

Well, Jay,

I am indeed using MILO (I had problems with SRM), and I do get a perfectly
functioning text console.
I'll definitely give 4.2.0 a try. BTW, the rawhide 4.2.0 RPM doesnt compile
out of the box.

	Oliver



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jay Estabrook [SMTP:Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 27, 2002 7:33 PM
> To:	axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject:	Re: ATI Radeon on PC164??
> 
> 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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