SiliconMotion Lynx3D Lockup

[Nathan Caldwell]

On 8/8/06, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/8/06, Nathan Caldwell <saintdev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, I'm attempting to setup a dual-head box, and have run into a
> > problem. My second card is a LCD that I got from EarthLCD, and it uses
> > a Silicon Motion Lynx3D chipset. Whenever I try to startup X it
> > completely locks my box, and I have to do a hard-reset. The only
> > information I have seen in the log file is:
> >
> > (II) Silicon Motioninitializing int10
> > (II) Attempted to read BIOS 64KB from
> > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:07.0/rom: got 40KB
> >
> > I've only gotten this once, most of the time the log file is truncated
> > before it even loads the int10 module for the Silicon Motion driver.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
>
> this sounds like the kernel rom problem on secondary cards that's
> currently being discussed on IRC and the xorg mailing list.

Thank you for the reply Alex, I'll make sure to keep an eye out to see
if a solution evolves.


-Nathan

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