Re: Linux 2.3.18ac7

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Tue, 21 Sep 1999 14:57:30 +0200


Hello,

> It is ROM region of your graphics card. Could you do
> lspci -vx
> and look at four bytes at offset 0x30 - these are ROM regions.
> And BIOS did not correct work either for Millennium or for another device.
> You can try 'pci=rom', maybe it says anything after
> PCI: Address space collision ... then. But as long as Matrox ROM region
> is in question, matroxfb does not need it... XFree needs it, but I think
> that they use legacy region at 0xC0000 instead of PCI ROM region.

This is a bug in 2.3.18, already fixed in my PCI patches -- see
ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/linux/pci/alpha/l-pci-2.3.18-3.gz.

> BTW, Martin, do you have/plan lspci which displays ROM region, by any chance?
> Neither lspci nor /proc/pci seems to display it.

With my recent patches and the recent alpha of pciutils, ROM bases
should be displayed correctly :)

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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