Need Help with ATI Graphic Card bring up

[Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)]

Hi 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Deucher [mailto:alexdeucher at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:34 AM
> To: Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh)
> Cc: xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org
> Subject: Re: Need Help with ATI Graphic Card bring up
> 
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Bizhan Gholikhamseh 
> (bgholikh) <bgholikh at cisco.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I have an embedded custom board PowerPC board (Freescale).
> > I have booted Debian 4.0 (etch) on the system running on 
> Linux kernel 
> > 2.6.25.
> > I have an ATI graphic card Radeon 9250 PCI card. USB mouse 
> and Keyboard.
> > I have console access to the system (serial connection).
> > I would like to get the graphic card to function in my environment.
> > However,  I get
> > lot us of error when I ran "startx" command.
> > I am using generic Linux image compiled for PowerPC, I am not sure 
> > where the problem is.
> > I have attached the log files for
> > xorg.conf and xorg.0.log. Please help me, I am stuck on 
> this for last 
> > 2 weeks.
> 
> You need to post the card for it to be usable.  The video 
> bios normally does this at boot to initialize the video card. 
>  On non-x86 platforms you'll need either support for posting 
> x86 video roms in your boot loader or you'll have to make 
> sure the x86 emulator in the xserver is working on your 
> platform and use it to post the card.  On ati cards, you can 
> also use tables in the bios to manually initialize the cards. 
>  There is code to do this for your card in more recent 
> versions of the radeon driver, but it's not well tested and 
> is disabled by default.
> 
Are there any PCI card that I can purchase that does not requires Bios
setup and xorg has driver for it, so I can move on? Any Mac graphic
card?

Thanks,
Bizhan


> Alex
>