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From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: IA-64 XFree86 (was: XFree 4.0.1 module loading)
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:19:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678205368@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678205362@msgid-missing>

Mark Vojkovich (mvojkovich@valinux.com) said: 
> 1) Firmware issues that prevent the X-server from working reliably
>    with SMP (even lspci locks up in the SAL code).

There is a kernel patch for this; there's a buffer overflow
in the PCI code. (Unless you are running into something else,
which is possible...)

> 3) The bios not assigning interrupts to cards that need them.
>    My A3 machine will not boot with an NVIDIA card in it for
>    this reason.

Is it sitting behind a PCI card with a bridge on it?

Bill


  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-08-21 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-21 16:30 [Linux-ia64] Re: IA-64 XFree86 (was: XFree 4.0.1 module loading) Keith Packard
2000-08-21 16:35 ` Marc Aurele La France
2000-08-21 17:00 ` Jes Sorensen
2000-08-21 19:34 ` Mark Vojkovich
2000-08-21 21:02 ` Marc Aurele La France
2000-08-21 21:19 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
2000-08-21 22:40 ` Mark Vojkovich
2000-08-22  1:29 ` David Mosberger
2000-08-22  2:38 ` Mark Vojkovich
2000-08-22 21:22 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2000-08-22 22:07 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2000-08-22 22:45 ` David Mosberger
2000-10-31  0:26 ` Johannes Erdfelt

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