Re: [gentoo-amd64] question about X700Pro (PCIe)

[Brett Johnson]

This may be a long shot, but I have a very similar problem on my system, 
Asus SK8N VE Delux,  ATI 9800XT (agp), 2.6.11-gentoo-r7 and the /evil/ 
ati-drivers-8.14.13-r2.

 From a cold boot, if I load straigt into Gentoo, X hangs the box. I can 
do is ssh in from a client and reboot (or reset if I'm lazy). I have not 
found any real erros in the logs, but next time I cold boot, I will see 
if I get simialr messages as below.

To correct the problem, I have to boot into Windows first. This seems to 
initalize what ever is not functioning properly. I then shutdown and 
restart back into Gentoo, and X starts up fine.

When ever I power of my system, I must always boot Windows first, then 
warm boot into Gentoo. This is something sorta new, as I had the same 
hardware config running fine with the x86 version of Gentoo, no need for 
windows. But after installing amd64, and possibly some later updates, 
the problem arose. I can not pin point when it started, as I very rarely 
power off my system. I have just been waiting for my vaction time so I 
can rebuild the system and hopefully the problem goes away or at least 
I'll setup a tri boot, windoze, gentoo x86 and gentoo amd64. This way I 
can narrow down if it's just amd64 or some other xorg or ati issue.

Brett


Andrey Schwedovitch wrote:

> i have GA-K8N Ultra (nForce4 Ultra without SLI)
> +
> ATi RADEON X700Pro
>
> kernel version is 2.6.13
>
> i CANNOT start X.. my comp freezes (only RESET helps)
>
> i found some messages in my logs like this :
>
> < SOME LOG TEXT SKIPPED >
>
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0b.0 to 64
> pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
> assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
>
> < SOME LOG TEXT SKIPPED >
>
> i think that string "pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid
> IRQ. Check vendor BIOS" points to my problem..
> i don't like that string, but i don't know how to eliminate it..
>
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