From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:28:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([IPv6:::ffff:12.44.186.158]:54258 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:28:38 +0100 Received: from mvista.com (av [127.0.0.1]) by av.mvista.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA07501; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:28:01 -0700 Message-ID: <411BEEF0.7060107@mvista.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:28:00 -0700 From: Pete Popov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Ackermann CC: Geert Uytterhoeven , dev-list@meshcube.org, linuxconsole-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux/MIPS Development Subject: Re: Q: problems with missing /dev/tty0 on X startup in MIPS system References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 5638 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ppopov@mvista.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips >Unfortunately - neither the fbdev code nor the X startup activates the >card. >The X startup failed with an "unable to map the card" once and now >repeatedly fails with: > > I don't know which ATI Rage card you have exactly, but there is a patch for the RageXL (tested on a MIPS board) on ftp.linux-mips.org:/pub/linux/mips/people/ppopov/2.4/aty_nobiosinit.patch. The problem is that at kernel version 2.4.24 or .25, don't remember which one, the aty code was restructured and the patch does not apply anymore. Pete