Xorg 7.0 RC3 (and 1 & 2): Can't start X on PCI Radeon

[Michel Dänzer]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 12:09 -0500, Ricky Rivera wrote:
> 

> I'm not really sure why the VideoRam is incorrect.  I didn't have it
> in there before, but then I noticed when going through the logs to try
> to solve this problem that X was detecting it as an 8 meg card.
> Unless I am the victim of some severe false advertisement, it is in
> actuality a 32 meg card.  The AGP seems to get correctly detected as
> having 32MB. 

This indicates that the card hasn't been properly low-level initialized.
The int10 module appears to be unable to read the video BIOS for some
reason. Does the system BIOS allow selecting the PCI card as primary? If
so, does that make any difference?


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast    |   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer