On 2016-04-13, at 8:18 PM, Graham Gower wrote: > On 14 April 2016 at 00:32, John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 2016-04-13 3:06 AM, Simone Mannori wrote: >>>> >>>> Maybe pulling FireGL X1 will help: >>>> >>>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-users/2015-February/000034.html >>> >>> Already done Dave: same error message during system boot. Just to be >>> clear, the error message is also indipendent by the PCI slot position. >>> Thanks for the hint, anyway. >> >> Just one further thought regarding FireGL X1. The OLS article by Grant >> referenced in the above >> link indicated that a common problem in porting drivers to parisc was timing >> issues with I/O writes. >> This was fixed in a couple of drivers by doing a read after doing a write. >> Possibly, the radeon driver >> could be hacked to always read after write as a test. > > I've tried this. It doesn't change the failure mode. Do you know if c8000 can setup any non HP card (e.g., ATI Rage XL)? It was reported that some old cards would work with PDC firmware in unaccelerated fb mode, but c8000 has x86 emulator so it might be able to enable accelerated 2d/3d. Dave -- John David Anglin dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
