Radeon 9000 on UP2000 - again!

[Alex Deucher]

On 9/20/05, Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook at hp.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:21:37PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> >
> > If you put it on pci bus 0, you may be able to have xorg post the card
> > when it loads using x86emu.  you could use a serial console for
> > booting purposes and hope xorg can post the card when it starts.
> 
> This may not be possible if running the BIOS emulator in SRM actually
> hangs the machine; and it WILL try to run the BIOS if it finds a VGA
> on bus #0... :-\
> 

In that case, you might try it on bus 1 and use the serial port for console.


> > the 9100 would be a faster chip as it is a full R200, however, I'm
> > not sure anyone made PCI 9100s.
> 
> Actually, Visiontek (XTASY brand ;-) made a PCI 9100 that works quite
> well under Xorg (6.8.1 and 6.8.2), and it runs at 66MHz in my DS15.
> Unfortunately, on that machine it HAS to be in bus #1 (the only bus
> with slots), and the 3D support is broken... :-(
> 

what sort of problems?  hangs?  drm oops?

Alex

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