Radeon 7000 in 9500 - which slot?

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Thu Oct 10 23:31:03 EST 2002


On Don, 2002-10-10 at 11:51, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> >
> >I have seen in Linux-PPC archives (mostly YDL archives) that a Radeon
> >7000 must live in the top slot of a 9500 to work in Linux. Any truth
> >to this rumor still? Indeed I have this card in the 4th slot, and I
> >get a crash into the debugger while booting 2.4.20pre5. Should I
> >provide a backtrace or just put it in the top slot?
>
> Yes, provide a backtrace. I suspect you need the radeon in a slot
> where the low IO addresses are available for XFree to work,

Shouldn't matter with Option "UseFBDev".


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XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast


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