[ltp] Re: PCI video card in dock II is not detected

[Lara Michaels]

Hi Connor,

Thank you for your reply. All of those are very valid points. Unfortunately I don't actually have any other PCI card lying around; it might indeed be a problem specific to this one. (As you pointed out, it is "recommended" on ThinkWiki but there is no indication of the OS on which it worked for the OP...).

Following Bjorn's suggestion, I will file a kernel report. Let us see if that helps. If indeed there is the possibility that this machine just can't connect to the PCI cards but can see the PCI part of the dock, I am sure some kernel dev will quickly shoot down the bug report. : )

best, I will keep you posted,

lara

--- On Wed, 3/3/10, Connor Behan <connor.behan@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Connor Behan <connor.behan@gmail.com>
> Subject: [ltp] Re: PCI video card in dock II is not detected
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 12:31 AM
> I just checked my BIOS settings and
> they look pretty standard. IRQ 11 for all devices, LCD as
> the default display, AGP as the default adapter and
> Automatic for PCI Power Bus Management. I know they used to
> be different but I probably reset my BIOS to the default
> settings while messing around with other stuff since then
> and the card kept working.
> 
> There are other modules in drivers/pci/hotplug like
> acpiphp, ibmphp and fakephp but I don't know if those will
> help. When I first had this problem I went to the LKML for
> help and they said modules won't make anything more likely
> to appear in "lspci."
> 
> I never thought about the possibility that X31 doesn't
> connect to the pins for the PCI slot. It would be
> unfortunate if this were the case. Are you sure the presence
> of "PCI docking bridge" in "lspci" eliminates this concern?
> I would think any laptop compatible with the dock (whether
> or not it uses the PCI slot) connects to the docking bridge
> so as to use internal PCI devices like the cardbus slots and
> usb ports on the dock.
> 
> Do you have other PCI video cards lying around that you
> could try? I have come across PCI video cards that don't
> work in the dock for some unknown reason.. even ones that
> use the same chipset. e.g. the Radeon X1550 that I use
> actually belongs to my friend. The one I ordered worked
> perfectly in any desktop computer but was not detected by
> the dock. His works in both so we traded. I have no idea
> why.
> 
> Some things about the dock's PCI bus are nonstandard like
> the inability to set latency timers. Maybe the OS you use
> makes a difference. If the card you have is the exact same
> chipset and manufacturer as a card recommended for use with
> the dock on ThinkWiki, the person who edited ThinkWiki may
> have used windows. I've never tried using windows with a
> Dock II. Maybe it has more success with these cards that
> mysteriously don't show up in "lspci" when docked.
> 
> Best of luck.
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