On 14 April 2016 at 09:59, John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > I have not tested this. I vaguely recall getting the same "bridge aperture too big" message once with a 128Mb radeon, but never obtained older cards which might be compatible. -- 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
