The Xorg modesetting driver should be fine on this hardware, you don't need the -ast driver.
Dave. On 15 April 2016 at 11:49, yu <kkn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Maintainers, > > > I have a Tyan TN71-BP012 power8 server, and its graphic is Aspeed AST2400. > http://tyan.com/Barebones_TN71-BP012_BSP012T71V14HR-4T-3 > > Recently I test Ubuntu 15.10 ppc64el on it, the kernel ast driver > works OK, but when test X, I found that the ast_drv.so build from the > xf86-video-ast can not work, here is the error message from X: > > [ 7498.243] (II) LoadModule: "ast" > [ 7498.244] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ast_drv.so > [ 7498.244] (EE) Failed to load > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ast_drv.so: > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ast_drv.so: undefined symbol: ioBase > [ 7498.244] (II) UnloadModule: "ast" > [ 7498.244] (II) Unloading ast > [ 7498.244] (EE) Failed to load module "ast" (loader failed, 7) > > I searched the "ioBase", it is defined in the compiler.h under the > MACRO "__powerpc__", so I just change the MACRO to let the driver can > be load, then error again: > > [ 26963.956] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for ast > [ 26963.956] (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device > [ 26963.956] (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device > [ 26963.956] (WW) AST: More than one matching Device section found: > Autoconfigured Video Device ast > [ 26963.956] (--) Chipset ASPEED Graphics Family found > [ 26963.956] (EE) ast: The PCI device 0x2000 at 07@01:00:0 has a > kernel module claiming it. > [ 26963.956] (EE) ast: This driver cannot operate until it has been unloaded. > > So I just comment the "pci_device_has_kernel_driver" in ast_driver.c > to let the probe continue, then error again: > > [ 22795.892] (II) AST(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen > section > "Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32 > [ 22795.892] (==) AST(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > [ 22795.892] (==) AST(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) > [ 22795.892] (==) AST(0): RGB weight 888 > [ 22795.892] (==) AST(0): Default visual is TrueColor > [ 22795.892] (--) AST(0): Chipset: "ASPEED Graphics Family" > [ 22795.892] (II) AST(0): Linear framebuffer at 0x82000000 > [ 22795.893] (II) AST(0): IO registers at addr 0x81800000 > [ 22795.893] (EE) AST(0): Map Memory Map IO Failed > > > It seems that the xf86-video-ast driver is for a 32bit system? is > there other X driver for the power8 machine using AST chips? > > BTW: The xf86-video-vesa can't work on the machine either, the error > message is also "undefined symbol: ioBase". > > cheers > > Yu > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
