Mark Vojkovich wrote:On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Aaron Yang wrote:i'm using xfree86 v4.3.0, redhat 9 and ati rage pro 8mb agp g.accel.
everything works fine when i boot in linux kernel 2.4.20.
after compiling and booting into linux-2.4.20-rtl, i can't start my X Server and i get the following errors. pls help, thanks! (!!) More than one primary device found (--) PCI: (0:14:0) unknown vendor (0x1274) unknown chipset (0x5880) rev 2, I/O @ 0x1080/6 (--) PCI: (1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RL/VR AGP rev 0, Mem @ 0xf8000000/26, 0xf0100000/14, I/O @ 0x9000/8
This looks like either a bug in your sound card, or more likely a motherboard bios bug.
I really doubts if that is the case. BIOS don't usually make such catastrophic errors. I am pretty sure it is not the BIOS. The PCI configuration space Class Code should be a clue.
Base Class Sub-Class Interface Meaning
00h 00h 00h All currently implemented devices except for VGA-compatible device
00h 01h 00h VGA-Compatible device
03h 00h 0000000b VGA-compatible controller. Memory addresses 0A0000h through 0BFFFFh
I/O addressses 3B0h to 3BBh and 3C0h to 3DFh and all aliases of these
addresses.
03h 00h 00000001b 8514-compatible controller - 2E8h and its aliases, 2EAh-2EFh
03h 01h 00h XGA controller
03h 80h 00h other display controller
04h 00h 00h Video device
04h 01h 00h Audio device
04h 80h 00 Other multimedia device
If it is the BIOS the video will never appear a boot.
Perhaps your previous kernel had a workaround for this while your upgraded kernel did not.
Do you know what the rtl means at the end of linux-2.4.20-rtl ?
Anyhow, what happened is that your motherboard marked your sound card as the primary display card. If you look at /proc/pci it probably identified your sound card as a VGA controller.
A workaround would be to specify the bus id explicitly in the Section "Device" of the XF86Config file. Eg.:
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
In absence of the explicit bus ID, XFree86 is defaulting to the primary display device, which in this case, happens to be your sound card :)
I agree this isn't a BIOS nor kernel issue. But, Mark's right nonetheless. The sound adapter is mis-advertising itself as a "prehistoric" VGA (not the first time). For now, specify the BusID and everything will be fine.
I'll have this fixed in 4.5.
Marc.
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