[Linux-ia64] Re: IA-64 XFree86 (was: XFree 4.0.1 module loading)

Bill Nottingham
2000-08-21T21:19:11Z

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