On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Jonathan C. Nicklin wrote:
> All,
> I am trying to debug the dual head freeze I described
> in a previous post and I noticed something interesting
> of which I am curious if there is an explanation. I have
> found that the first time I start the X server, the logs dont
> inidicate any errors, but, if I immediately restart the
> server, the logs inidicate the following:
>
> (II) RADEON(1): PCI bus 1 card 0 func 0
> (**) RADEON(1): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
> (II) RADEON(1): Pixel depth = 16 bits stored in 2 bytes (16 bpp pixmaps)
>
> (==) RADEON(1): Default visual is TrueColor
> (==) RADEON(1): RGB weight 565
> (II) RADEON(1): Using 6 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
> (II) Loading sub module "int10"
> (II) LoadModule: "int10"
> (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a
> (II) RADEON(1): initializing int10
> (EE) RADEON(1): Cannot read V_BIOS
> (--) RADEON(1): Chipset: "ATI Radeon QD (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x5144)
> (--) RADEON(1): Linear framebuffer at 0xd8000000
> (--) RADEON(1): MMIO registers at 0xff880000
> (--) RADEON(1): BIOS at 0xff860000
> (--) RADEON(1): VideoRAM: 32768 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM)
> (WW) RADEON(1): Video BIOS not detected in PCI space!
> (WW) RADEON(1): Attempting to read Video BIOS from legacy ISA space!
> (II) RADEON(1): Primary Display == Type 1
>
> This error is not fatal but it is odd that this message
> does not appear when starting X after a warm or cold
> reset.
>
> Does anyone have any clue why this might happen?
I've seen this behaviour is well. What happens (AFAIK) is that initially
the card is "cold" and you can read BIOS from PCI space. But once it was
booted by the Xserver its BIOS is mapped into ISA space i.e. with
segment 0xC000 for DOS compatibility.
Vladimir Dergachev
>
> thanks,
> Jonathan Nicklin
>
> ps. this specific card is a AIW AGP
>
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