ATI RADEON 9000 causes errors
by Alps from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5GT90)
Hi everybody!
I've just installed Debian 10.8.0 (DVD1) i386 on an old laptop (Pentium 4, 1Gb RAM and Win XP running smoothly) and I've solved the well known issue "MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC", putting "noapic nolapic acpi=off" in grub.
These are the firmware packages that I managed to install:
firmware-misc-nonfree_20190114-2_all.deb
firmware-ralink_20190114-2_all.deb
firmware-amd-graphics_20190114-2_deb9u1_all.deb
But now, as many have experienced, my ATI RADEON 9000 (64MB) has caused these error lines:
[drm:r100_ring_test] *ERROR* radeon: ring test failed (scratch(0x15E4)=0xCAFEDEAD) [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* radeon: cp isn't working (-22).
radeon 0000:01:03.0: failed initializing CP (-22).
radeon 0000:01:03.0: Disabling GPU acceleration
Within some possible solutions, someone has suggested to add this boot option:
radeon.modeset=0
But the result is another error:
[drm:radeon_init [radeon]] *ERROR* No UMS support in radeon module!
The current screen resolution is 1024x768 and I'd like to maintain all the graphics settings I have in WinXP.
If it's impossible to overcome this issue in a simple and fast way, please suggest another 32-bit Linux distro that doesn't have problems with my ATI RADEON 9000.
I've just installed Debian 10.8.0 (DVD1) i386 on an old laptop (Pentium 4, 1Gb RAM and Win XP running smoothly) and I've solved the well known issue "MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC", putting "noapic nolapic acpi=off" in grub.
These are the firmware packages that I managed to install:
firmware-misc-nonfree_20190114-2_all.deb
firmware-ralink_20190114-2_all.deb
firmware-amd-graphics_20190114-2_deb9u1_all.deb
But now, as many have experienced, my ATI RADEON 9000 (64MB) has caused these error lines:
[drm:r100_ring_test] *ERROR* radeon: ring test failed (scratch(0x15E4)=0xCAFEDEAD) [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* radeon: cp isn't working (-22).
radeon 0000:01:03.0: failed initializing CP (-22).
radeon 0000:01:03.0: Disabling GPU acceleration
Within some possible solutions, someone has suggested to add this boot option:
radeon.modeset=0
But the result is another error:
[drm:radeon_init [radeon]] *ERROR* No UMS support in radeon module!
The current screen resolution is 1024x768 and I'd like to maintain all the graphics settings I have in WinXP.
If it's impossible to overcome this issue in a simple and fast way, please suggest another 32-bit Linux distro that doesn't have problems with my ATI RADEON 9000.