From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: I'm having some problems with getting X to start on a PowerMac G4 with an ATI Rage 128 video card with 16MB Video RAM... sometimes on boot, I get "aty128fb: Invalid ROM signature 1111 should be 0xaa55" and it hangs, and sometimes it gets the error, but is able to get past it, but then X can't start, with an error of (EE) R128(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (5) and then (EE) R128(0): No DFP detected. /etc/xorg.conf has the video card configured thusly: Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "r128" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "ATI Rage 128" EndSection Joel Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start FC4 in runlevel 5 or issue init 5 command Actual Results: Either the system hangs with the Invalid ROM signature error or it boots but X fails to start. Expected Results: The system should boot cleanly and X should start properly. Additional info:
Here is the output from lspci: [root@gordon ~]# lspci 00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI 0001:10:0d.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21154 (rev 05) 0001:11:07.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 02) 0001:11:08.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB 0001:11:09.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB 0001:11:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 IEEE-1394 Controller 0002:21:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth Internal PCI 0002:21:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 01)
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I have posted this to X.Org as bug 3601 as you suggested: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3601 However, there still is the problem with the fact that I always get "aty128fb: Invalid ROM signature 1111 should be 0xaa55" on boot, and sometimes it can't get past this point at all, to say nothing about booting the kernel and getting to X... Thanks- Joel
(In reply to comment #3) > I have posted this to X.Org as bug 3601 as you suggested: > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3601 Thanks for reporting the issue to the Xorg developers. Once they've fixed the problem, we will review their fixes for consideration in a future update. > However, there still is the problem with the fact that I always get "aty128fb: > Invalid ROM signature 1111 should be 0xaa55" on boot, and sometimes it can't > get past this point at all, to say nothing about booting the kernel and > getting to X... This could be a bad BIOS on the card, which is what the message is implying. If you're having kernel problems, you should also report a bug against the kernel component. Hope this helps. Setting status to "UPSTREAM" for tracking.