Re: 2.6.10 dies when X tries to initialize PCI radeon 9200 SE

David Lang
2005-01-14T02:21:26Z

I ran into a similar problem with 2.6.8.1 and found that by downgrading to
AGP4 I could get it to work.

DAvid Lang

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, John covici wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 06:00:40 -0500
> From: John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
> To: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no>
> Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: 2.6.10 dies when X tries to initialize PCI radeon 9200 SE
>
> I am getting something similar -- the X process gets stuck in some
> kind of system call, but I can login from the network and shut the
> system down, but I cannot change the console from the X to a text
> console.
>
> on Thursday 01/13/2005 Helge Hafting(helge.hafting@hist.no) wrote
> > 2.6.10 boots fine, but is killed by the X server when it
> > tries to initialize my PCI radeon 9200 SE. This problem exists
> > in 2.6.9 too, but not in 2.6.8.1. So I'm stuck with that version currently.
> >
> > The problem seems to be access to the card bios, X uses
> > int10 bios calls to initialize the card.
> >
> > Helge Hafting
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