Re: Diamond Monster 3D PCI problems

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:17:26 +0200

> Alright, I found that CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT option in 2.1.22. Turns out it
> was turned on but so was the option to use the PCI BIOS so it was probably
> being used instead. I shut that off, recompiled, now when it boots it
> gets to the part where it says Probing PCI hardware, and the computer
> beeps 6 times and locks up with what looks like the top half of the
> characters '16' at the top of the screen.
>
> Now this leads me to suspect the PCI BIOS even more, because this also
> happens if I mess with the CMOS settings enough, instead of rebooting that
> exact same thing (the beeps and the half of a '16') happens. Something
> similar happens if I reboot Linux after having run and shutdown XFree86
> (the screen shuts off but it's the same beep pattern). What causes
> that I don't know but it looks like CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT won't be an option
> for me.
>
> I'll keep playing around with the PCI settings on the 2.1.x series (and
> snag the latest patches while I'm at it), but if anyone has any ideas,
> they'd be much appreciated.

Please compile the kernel with both BIOS and direct access and send
me bootup kernel messages for "pci=bios", "pci=conf1" and "pci=conf2"
set from the kernel command line.

Thanks

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"DOS never says "EXCELLENT command or filename"..."


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