Video card and AmigaOne

[newbee]

Team

I am the proud owner of an AmigaOne but am not (yet) a happy owner.
I cannot get my ATI Radeon 9000 card to work properly under Linux.
The Linux installs and runs as expected but does not find the video card at the 1:0:0 address.
My problem is two fold:
1). How do I verify that the card is even initialising properly (There seems to be no acknowledgement of the video card in the UBOOT BIOS whatsoever.
2). Is there an updated driver or something required to "find" ATI Radeon 9000 cards (are there any branding "peculiarities").

On a side note, if you're in the UBOOT BIOS and  type ? (Help) more than half of the options are unreadable as they fly off the screen before you have a chance to read them.... Where can a list of the options be found (There may be a useful diagnostic in there already)..

Regards
Darren

[JurassicCamper]

Best place to ask is amigaworld.net or a1dev list, which your dealer should have signed you upto.

Create an Amigaworld.net account.
Send Eyetech an email, with proof of purcahse of your A1, your amigaworld login and you should be able to access the closed A1 owners forum.

 

[jack]

by JurassicCamper on 2003/9/12 10:11:33

Best place to ask is amigaworld.net or a1dev list, which your dealer should have signed you upto.

Create an Amigaworld.net account.
Send Eyetech an email, with proof of purcahse of your A1, your amigaworld login and you should be able to access the closed A1 owners forum.

Yep, and also the a1-linux yahoo group. You can also try
Ole-Egil's online A1 FAQ

Jack.

[jack]

by newbee on 2003/9/12 1:57:41

On a side note, if you're in the UBOOT BIOS and type ? (Help) more than half of the options are unreadable as they fly off the screen before you have a chance to read them.... Where can a list of the options be found (There may be a useful diagnostic in there already)..

Once I came upon the snapshot of u-boot help messages, but I cant' find it anymore.

Anyway you don't need it for radeon-related diagnostics (i use Radeon 9000 pro (April's, July's and September u-boot versions). See the links in my prev message for instructions.

To use the radeon driver of XFree86 you will need 2.4.21 kernel and unstable libc6 and XFree86 on debian as per instructions,
in YDL3 no need in unstable packages but there's no cd installer yet, there are some "acrobatics" required for installation.


Jack.

[newbee]

@Jack & JurassicCamper

Thank you for the links... I will be following them up shortly.

I will post a "problem solved" update here once it is resolved...

Regards
Darren