radeon lockup

Erwin Rol mailinglists at erwinrol.com
Wed Jun 28 03:42:04 PDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 00:02 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> Looking at the error messages i noticed the following line;
> 
> (II) Attempted to read BIOS 128KB from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:05.0/rom: got 2KB
> 
> An ls -l of the file shows a 128kb file length, and the BAR for that
> region is also 128kb, but it seems that reading the file only returns
> 2kb. I don't know the reason but it seems some sort of error. When i now
> look at the code that does the reading it returns 0 when it can't open
> the rom file or it returns the number of bytes read. 
> 

Well i unmounted sysfs before starting X so it could not access the BIOS
in the new way, and that didn't help at all. 

- Erwin





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