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

[Ricky Rivera]

On 12/14/05, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
>
> 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?


Interestingly enough, that does make a difference!  If I boot w/ the PCI as
primary, X loads up fine on it, w/ seemingly no errors.  However, the
problem has switched hands.  Now the AGP card causes a hard lock. :-/  At
least we seem to be closer to a cause, if not a solution...

--Ricky
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