Hi Matt > Jerome and I think that the hang may be caused by being unable to read > the PCI ROM.
I have been taking a little bit of a look at reading the PCI ROM on a radeon video card to try to get the radeonhd xserver video driver going on Alpha. On one of my Alphas the SRM can't post the card so xserver/radeonhd have to do all the dirty work. I discovered that the r[567]xx radeon cards need quite a bit of setting up to enable the PCI ROM. In short, writing to the enable and rom files in the PCI card's sysfs directory in the prescribed manner isn't sufficient to enable the ROM. I wrote a patch to the rhd_dump and rhd_conntest utils of the radeonhd project, so that they would use libpciaccess to access the registers and PCI ROM of the radeon r[567]xx cards. Unfortunately my patches got mangled in posting to the radeonhd list, and I have been travelling for the last couple of weeks, so they didn't make the release of radeonhd last week. The upshot is that I can read the PCI ROM of a Radeon HD2400 card with my patches applied to rhd_conntest, and I have had Xserver 1.5.3 up and running with the HD2400 card on a PWS600au. I can send you the patches to rhd_dump and rhd_conntest if you would like to try them out. Cheers Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
