xf 4.0.1 with rage II/rage pro -- multi-headed display!

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Wed Sep 27 03:26:33 EST 2000


On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> >  > Anything about PCI problems in the server log?
> >
> > The only server log I have right now is for the X I left running
> > yesterday with the fbdev driver.  There are a couple of PCI warnings
> > in this one but no errors (no surprise, since everything is working
> > well with fbdev):
> >
> > (**) (null)(2): claimed PCI slot 0:15:0
> > (II) FBDev(2): using /dev/fb2
> > (WW) ****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0x400 e: 0x4ff correcting
> > (II) window:
> >         [0] -1  0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IXB
> > (II) resSize:
> > (II) window fixed:
> >         [0] -1  0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IXB
> > (WW) ****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0x400 e: 0x4ff correcting
>
> These shouldn't be critical (but they shouldn't happen, either).
>
> > Are there known X-related problems using BootX?
>
> You were looking at it, from what I guess. Apple's drivers set up
> overlapping areas for MMIO and VRAM, and X fixes this by disabling one of
> these. Unfortunatly, the kernel doesn't notice.

Fortunately these PCI assignment bugs should be circumvented by the new PCI
code we're working on.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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