linux-kernel - Re: Kernel 2.6.30.1 Oops on Alpha Architecture when starting Xserver

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Date:	Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:54:27 +1000
From:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
To:	Michael Cree <mcree@...on.net.nz>
Cc:	linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	xorg@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.30.1 Oops on Alpha Architecture when starting Xserver

>>> The kernel oops is:
>>>
>>
>> So its a machine check,
>>
>
> So, does this indicate a software fault (e.g. inconsistencies in kernel data
> structures) or does it imply a hardware fault?
>
>> Well X is trying to post the graphics card you have installed, and the
>> machine
>> is falling over when it does it.
>>
>
> SRM (the equivalent of a BIOS) cannot post the card on startup.  But I have
> had the card (radeon rv610) post correctly and working in the past when I
> compiled the complete 1.5.3 Xserver myself.  I had it working with both the
> radeon and radeonhd drivers and a 2.6.29.x kernel patched to support
> libpciaccess.

There is no -ati card in that machine, its got some SiS card which is
completely
different, maybe its some onboard card or something.

Dave.
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