From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200011050936.KAA00822@piglet.grunz.lu> References: <200011050936.KAA00822@piglet.grunz.lu> Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:59:46 -0500 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Stefan Jeglinski Subject: Re: whacked out 2.2.18pre17? Cc: Michel Lanners Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > > Me too :-) FWIW, here they are in order from top to bottom: >> >> Adaptec 2940UW >> Farallon ethernet 10/100 >> OrangeLink firewire/usb combo >> Matrox Mystique card >> ixMicro TV card >> ixMicro Twin Turbo card > >OK, 6 slots, so I suppose this is a 9x00 or compatible box? PowerTowerPro, most comparable to the 9500 AFAIK. I also have a 500/1Mb PowerLogix upgrade card in it. > > lspci gives (only): >> >> 00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev 03) >> 00:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7881U >> 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip >> 21142/43 (rev 41) >> 00:0f.0 PCI bridge: Action Tec Electronics Inc: Unknown device 0100 (rev 11) >> 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Grand Central I/O (rev 02) >> 01:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation: Unknown device 00cd (rev 01) >> 01:0d.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10) > >Hmm, there's one bus missing here, the one with the Matrox and the >ixMicro cards. Yes, I've known this for a while. But this leads to a long-standing question of mine: how is it that the Twin Turbo card is still somehow recognized? Because the imsttfb driver will load and appears functional in console mode (although not in X as described on other linuxppc lists). >And the accompanying bandit host bridge is missing. You >might want to try my PCI patches (see: >http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/linux/dev/pci.html). The relevant part is this >here, in arch/ppc/kernel/pmac_pci.c: Thanks I will try this. >Stefan, a final note, if you want to turn multihead, it might be a good >idea performance-wise to put both of your graphics boards not in the >same PCI bus... ie one into slots 1-3, and the other in slots 4-6. Given my list of cards, are there any other general pointers as to which bus which cards should go? The order I have now took a long time to create - I'm not sure if it's the unique workable one, but several other orders cause OpenTransport crashes when I am running the ixTV (!). But it looks like removing cards and/or changing order is my only choice, given 2.2.18's new proclivity (for me anyway) to not boot - bummer. I'll be back with a report when I can try it all. Stefan Jeglinski ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/