From: Don Wilburn <bodhisattva@gt.rr.com>
To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-alpha] radeon questions
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 16:20:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <547B9838.5010409@gt.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51DEC311.3020605@computer.org>
Dear silent alpha list,
I got X to work with my GeForce card and the nv driver. It was
functional, but underwhelming. So, I got a PCI Radeon card via eBay.
Specifically, it's a Visiontek 9250. The lspci output calls it an RV280
9200 PRO. So far, I can't get X to work.
Like nouveau for my nVidia card, the kernel DRM radeon module won't
load. Running modprobe radeon fails and says "Exec format error." The
dmesg output says something about "Relocation (type 4) overflow vs
radeon_resume_kms."
Question 1: Does the kernel module work with any alpha, or is it just mine?
Even worse, the xorg driver doesn't seem to work for me. The Xorg
website says the radeon driver works with the RV280/9250 chip. The
Xorg.0.log shows a long list of radeon models, but none of the 9200/9250
models say PCI. They say AGP or IGP.
I tried to copycat a google result pertaining to a ppc iMac and made a
conf file to explicitly relate the radeon driver to the device by BusID,
but that didn't help.
Question 2: Does anyone have a PCI radeon 9250 working in their alpha?
Should I give up? Any advice is welcome.
Oh, I don't expect my video performance to be very good in a 500MHz
machine with a PCI card. I was hoping there would be an advantage with
drivers for ATI/AMD vs hostile nVidia.
Thanks, DW
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-30 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-10 20:51 [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation Don Wilburn
2013-05-10 21:18 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-10 22:30 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-10 22:55 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-11 0:43 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-11 2:03 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-11 4:57 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-11 20:11 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-12 2:30 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-12 18:07 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-12 20:41 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-15 1:56 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-15 16:41 ` Matt Turner
2013-05-15 20:56 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-16 2:31 ` [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation- SOLVED! Don Wilburn
2013-05-16 2:46 ` [gentoo-alpha] suggestion for the Alpha handbook Don Wilburn
2013-05-16 18:46 ` [gentoo-alpha] Xorg installation- SOLVED! Matt Turner
2013-05-16 23:44 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-23 19:12 ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge gentoo-sources fails Don Wilburn
2013-05-23 19:39 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-23 21:30 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-24 18:59 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 20:16 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 20:23 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 20:56 ` Don Wilburn
2013-05-24 20:58 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 21:12 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-24 22:29 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-05-27 4:12 ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge gentoo-sources fails FINISHED Don Wilburn
2013-05-27 4:25 ` [gentoo-alpha] one more thing Don Wilburn
2013-05-29 1:39 ` [gentoo-alpha] es1888 audio and PWS500au Don Wilburn
2013-05-29 4:47 ` Brian Parkhurst
2013-06-06 22:33 ` [gentoo-alpha] Alpha boot CD has no jfs tools Don Wilburn
2013-06-12 6:43 ` Matt Turner
2013-06-13 0:27 ` Don Wilburn
2013-06-13 7:17 ` Matt Turner
2013-06-14 3:27 ` [gentoo-alpha] Alpha boot CD has no jfs tools bug report Don Wilburn
2014-09-26 20:51 ` [gentoo-alpha] install cd won't boot Don Wilburn
2014-10-06 23:41 ` Don Wilburn
2014-10-07 14:32 ` Don Wilburn
2014-10-25 16:19 ` Raúl Porcel
2013-05-24 20:46 ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge gentoo-sources fails Don Wilburn
2013-07-11 2:41 ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge failure revisited Don Wilburn
2013-07-11 14:37 ` Andrew Gaylard
2013-07-11 18:42 ` Don Wilburn
2014-11-30 22:20 ` Don Wilburn [this message]
2014-12-09 7:17 ` [gentoo-alpha] radeon questions Matt Turner
2014-12-09 12:28 ` [gentoo-alpha] " Måns Rullgård
2014-12-09 18:56 ` Don Wilburn
2014-12-11 14:39 ` Alex Deucher
2014-12-10 0:54 ` [gentoo-alpha] " Don Wilburn
2014-12-13 22:10 ` Don Wilburn
2014-12-13 22:22 ` [gentoo-alpha] " Måns Rullgård
2014-12-13 22:25 ` Matt Turner
2014-12-14 20:50 ` Don Wilburn
2014-12-14 21:21 ` Måns Rullgård
2014-12-26 22:33 ` [gentoo-alpha] radeonfb question Don Wilburn
2014-12-27 21:09 ` [gentoo-alpha] radeonfb question solved Don Wilburn
2015-02-01 20:31 ` [gentoo-alpha] bug filed, probably happens to Alpha alone Don Wilburn
2015-02-04 0:14 ` Don Wilburn
2015-06-16 0:22 ` [gentoo-alpha] nouveau question Don Wilburn
2015-06-16 15:40 ` [gentoo-alpha] nouveau question -follow up Don Wilburn
2015-06-16 21:17 ` Alan Young
2013-07-21 4:10 ` [gentoo-alpha] emerge failure revisited Matt Turner
2013-07-23 0:26 ` Don Wilburn
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