Radeon 9000 on UP2000 - again!

[Alex Deucher]

On 9/29/05, A. Devine <domokun at eircom.net> wrote:
> From: "M. Eric Christy" <christy at jlab.org>
> To: "Linux on Alpha processors" <axp-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Radeon 9000 on UP2000 - again!
> > Just my 2 cents...  I have tried both the original Radeon SDR and a 7500
> > in 2 different UP2000 boards and had no success.  I tried every possible
> > permutation of slots for my various pci cards and I tried running with the
> > Radeon as a second head with a Voodoo3.  When running with the Voodoo3
> > (or a Permidia 2 card) I found that SRM alway listed that Radeon cards
> > were found at every possible PCI id.  I posted this on this list about a
> > year ago but never found a resolution.  Personally, I decided that this
> > was an exercise in futility.  Good Luck ....
> >
> >
> > -Eric
> >
>
> [I replied to this already but it didnt seem to appear]
>
> That seems to be where Im not stuck too:
> Ok, got a little further. Moved the Radeon to the second last PCI slot and
> the machine no longer crashed on "Initializing hardware". It gets to Kudzu
> and asks to configure the card... unfortuantely is detects about 20 Radeon
> 9000 cards on what appears to be every PCI slot (real or virtual). None of
> them appear to be appeal to start and actually do anything. Eventually I
> told it to Ignore All so it would continue on. It then get to the X login
> and tries to start the cards again! As Im typing this its just gone by card
> 28 ("Cannot start X Server on Card 28").
>
> I also get error constantly scrolling down the screen: "Could not allocate 8
> bytes per CPU data".
>

if you can find out it's real busid, you can remove any duplicate
configs in your xorg.conf and specify the busid in your (single)
device section.

Alex

> Jay mentioned other BIOSes on the UP2000... is it possible to flash a DP264
> bios onto the UP2000 and gain better HW compatibility?
>
>
> Alan
>