On Thursday 11 September 2003 00:07, David S. Miller wrote: > XF-4.3.x should at least try to execute the x86 BIOS properly > on Rage-128 cards, for example.
Since we're on the topic, I'm adding a little log extract of my Radeon test on XFree86. Comments between square brackets are mine, of course. (II) RADEON(1): initializing int10 (--) RADEON(1): Chipset: "ATI Radeon VE QY (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x5159) [A.K.A. Radeon 7000, Chip detected is the right one but it's not an AGP board] (--) RADEON(1): Linear framebuffer at 0x08000000 (--) RADEON(1): MMIO registers at 0x10000000 (--) RADEON(1): BIOS at 0x00040000 (--) RADEON(1): VideoRAM: 8192 kByte (64-bit SDR SDRAM) [Eight megabytes? Wrong detection, this board has 32 mb] (WW) xf86ReadPciBIOS: Unsupported on this platform. [What a sad thing to hear... any way to implement it?] (WW) RADEON(1): Video BIOS not detected in PCI space! (WW) RADEON(1): Attempting to read Video BIOS from legacy ISA space! (WW) RADEON(1): Video BIOS not found! (II) Loading sub module "ddc" (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Loading sub module "i2c" (II) LoadModule: "i2c" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libi2c.a (II) Module i2c: vendor="The XFree86 Project" (WW) RADEON(1): Video BIOS not detected, using default PLL parameters! (II) RADEON(1): PLL parameters: rf=2700 rd=67 min=12500 max=35000; xclk=16615 (==) RADEON(1): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (WW) RADEON(1): Mode 640x480 is out of range. Valid mode should be between 640x480-0x0 [640x480 is sad, but would be better than nothing] (EE) RADEON(1): No valid mode found for this DFP/LCD (II) RADEON(1): If you have an analog monitor attached but no DFP/LCD try specifying 'Option "CrtScreen"' in your X serverconfig file. [Tried to specify that option, rebooted X then saw my Sun crash solidly. Even STOP-A didn't work. Xfree log files reported that the video adapter wasn't ready or similar stuff] > But every time I ask why even debian unstable's XF86 is stuck > at 4.2.x I never get any response so I fear it'll be stuck > there for millenia or two. :) I think it's time for the debian xfree team to be brave and try to package the new xfree, at least on SPARC since using a (non-Sun) PCI video card on Sparc is a significant advantage for the community, and it's something even Solaris lacks. -- Antonello Iunco <etn at libero dot it> - Natural Born Betatester Cruising the Web on a (Modified) Debian-Powered Sun Ultra10
