Re: ATI Radeon IGP 320M Linux support

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 15:16, Chris Cheney wrote:
> 
> I recently purchased a Compaq Presario 900Z laptop and discovered it
> used a ATI Radeon IGP 320M chipset.
> 
> http://mirror.ati.com/technology/hardware/radeonigp/rigp320m.html
> 
> >From the pci output it looks like it uses ALi parts but at least with
> kernel 2.4.18 it will not boot properly (Yes, Windows XP runs on it).
> I tried to install Debian on it (2.4.18 kernel) and at first it hangs
> with a machine check exception unless nomce is passed, then it will
> give errors like this:

Nobody has managed to make Linux run on this laptop that I know of. As a
starting point you might want to build a kernel with no PCI IDE support,
and no USB support and work from there.

We have no documentation on the ATI IDE or other components in the
system.

Alan