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Dear silent alpha list, |
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I got X to work with my GeForce card and the nv driver. It was |
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functional, but underwhelming. So, I got a PCI Radeon card via eBay. |
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Specifically, it's a Visiontek 9250. The lspci output calls it an RV280 |
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9200 PRO. So far, I can't get X to work. |
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Like nouveau for my nVidia card, the kernel DRM radeon module won't |
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load. Running modprobe radeon fails and says "Exec format error." The |
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dmesg output says something about "Relocation (type 4) overflow vs |
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radeon_resume_kms." |
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Question 1: Does the kernel module work with any alpha, or is it just mine? |
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Even worse, the xorg driver doesn't seem to work for me. The Xorg |
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website says the radeon driver works with the RV280/9250 chip. The |
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Xorg.0.log shows a long list of radeon models, but none of the 9200/9250 |
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models say PCI. They say AGP or IGP. |
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I tried to copycat a google result pertaining to a ppc iMac and made a |
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conf file to explicitly relate the radeon driver to the device by BusID, |
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but that didn't help. |
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Question 2: Does anyone have a PCI radeon 9250 working in their alpha? |
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Should I give up? Any advice is welcome. |
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Oh, I don't expect my video performance to be very good in a 500MHz |
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machine with a PCI card. I was hoping there would be an advantage with |
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drivers for ATI/AMD vs hostile nVidia. |
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Thanks, DW |
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