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[Henrik Olsson <henrik@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 14:33, Gyhor <gyhor@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> adventurous that I am, I installed the avanced bios for sony z21 [1]
> and disabled the intel card.
> Be careful and write down the keys that you have to press, because the
> screen will be off! (Restart Computer, wait 4-6 seconds, press F2, F9,
> Enter,F10, Enter)
>
> Then i booted ubuntu (blind), logged in with a ssh and installed the newest
> fglrx driver.
> Still nothing working :(
>
> the important error messages:
>
> Logs:
> [   245.061] (--) Chipset Supported AMD Graphics Processor (0x6740) found
> [   245.061] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID
> PCI:0@22:0:1) found
> [   245.062] (II) AMD Video driver is running on a device belonging to a
> group targeted for this release
> [   245.062] (II) AMD Video driver is signed
> ...
> [   245.065] (--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "AMD Radeon HD 6700M Series" (Chipset =
> 0x6740)
> [   245.065] (--) fglrx(0): (PciSubVendor = 0x104d, PciSubDevice = 0x9084)
> [   245.065] (==) fglrx(0): board vendor info: third party graphics adapter
> - NOT original ATI
> [   245.065] (--) fglrx(0): Linear framebuffer (phys) at 0xa0000000
> [   245.065] (--) fglrx(0): MMIO registers at 0xb0200000
> [   245.065] (--) fglrx(0): I/O port at 0x00005000
> [   245.065] (==) fglrx(0): ROM-BIOS at 0x000c0000
> [   245.066] (II) fglrx(0): AC Adapter is used
> [   245.072] (II) fglrx(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
> [   245.072] (II) fglrx(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
> [   245.072] (II) fglrx(0): Invalid ATI BIOS from int10, the adapter is not
> VGA-enabled
> [   245.072] (EE) fglrx(0): Invalid video BIOS signature!
> [   245.073] (EE) fglrx(0): GetBIOSParameter failed
> [   245.073] (EE) fglrx(0): PreInitAdapter failed
> [   245.073] (EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed
> [   245.073] (II) fglrx(0): === [xdl_xs111_atiddxPreInit] === end
> ....
> [   245.075] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
>
> Xorg.0.log:
> http://pastebin.com/xrGjdxXQ
>
> AGAIN, be warned! If you disable the intel card, after rebooting your screen
> is off!
>
>
> [1]
> http://forum.notebookreview.com/sony/641483-sony-vaio-z2-2011-advanced-menu-bios-hack-2.html
>
> Am 29.02.2012 11:47, schrieb Gyhor:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i am trying http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1930450
>> But the fglrx driver is always look on busid 22 and X stops with
>> "No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@22:0:1) found"
>>
>> Anyone an idea?
>>
>> regards
>> gyhor
>>
>>
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It would be interesting to try using it with PCI passthru to a virtual
windows guest.

Something like this:
http://fixme.se/2012/02/09/one-computer-to-rule-them-all.html