[Mesa-dev] r128 problems on G3 iMac, X server locks up

[Alex Buell]

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 18:02 +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 11:38 -0500, Bridgman, John wrote:
> > There might be a clue in the dmesg output. 
> > 
> > This is looking less like a mesa dev issue - is there a better list for this ? 
> 
> I'll move it over to the dri-dev mailing list. 

I have found the problem by looking in the dmesg; I didn't know the e128
chipset needed a firmware to run :)

Apr 20 17:31:40 carbon kernel: platform r128_cce.0: firmware: requesting
r128/r128_cce.bin
Apr 20 17:31:40 carbon kernel: r128_cce: Failed to load firmware
"r128/r128_cce.bin"
Apr 20 17:31:40 carbon kernel: [drm:r128_do_init_cce] *ERROR* Failed to
load firmware!
Apr 20 17:31:40 carbon kernel: [drm:r128_cce_stop] *ERROR* called with
no initialization
Apr 20 17:31:40 carbon firmware.sh[28323]: Cannot find  firmware file
'r128/r128_cce.bin'

Hopefully it should work now. 
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