Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:50:11 +0100
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>, covici@ccs.covici.com,
       Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.10 dies when X tries to initialize PCI radeon 9200 SE
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:08:38PM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote:

> Well the problem with a lot of ATI chips is they can be put onto
> either an AGP or PCI card and work fine, so chips which are AGP chips
> can end up on PCI cards...
> 
X uses chip ID to guess wether it is an AGP or PCI card?  Ouch.
Doesn�'t the kernel know very well how the card is connected,
couldn't X get this from the same interfaces "lspci" uses?

> it sounds like something may have broken the int10 stuff, but I've no
> idea what, the only other thing I can think to recommend doing is an
> binary search say starting at 2.6.9-rc1 and maybe using the -bk
> snapshots to nail down exactly when it went wrong....

That�'s an option.  It'll take time though, it is a multiuser machin; 
I can compile all the kernels I want but rebooting isn't
that popular.

Helge Hafting
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