Ubuntu 11.04 - 5970 - No valid I/O port address

[lamething]

I have been mining quite consistently on a BAMT rig for the past 5-months. The setup has been an ASUS P5B with 4x Sapphire 5830s. I am using 3 - PCI 1x risers with 5v power and then a single PCI-E 16x slot.
Here comes the issue! I decied to pick up a Diamond 5970 and sold one of my 5830's to a friend. I replaced the 5830 in the PCI-E 16x slot with the new 5970.
Once booted I immediately started getting this:

Code:

lamething@miner2:/var/log$ aticonfig --odgt --adapter=all
ERROR - Get temperature failed for Adapter 0 - ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series
ERROR - Get temperature failed for Adapter 1 - ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series

Adapter 2 - ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 25.00 C

Adapter 3 - ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 26.50 C

Adapter 4 - ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
            Sensor 0: Temperature - 27.50 C

I then did a :

Code:

lamething@miner2:/var/log$ aticonfig --initial -f --adapter=all
No protocol specified
Uninitialised file found, configuring.
Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Saving back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx-1

I then rebooted (after the initialize) and still have the same issue. If I physically remove 2 of the 5830s the 5970 will come online and I am able to utilize it (read/set clocks, mine, etc) but naturally that is not ideal.
I have since moved the system to a Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit install and am now back in the exact same spot.
I currently am using the AMD 11.6 fglrx driver from here http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-6-x86.x86_64.run I have also attempted to use the Ubuntu 11.04 repository fglrx, same issue and Catalyst 11.10 -- all driver installs have been done a clean Ubuntu 11.04 64bit installation.

Here is the device section of my xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[1]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[2]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:8:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[3]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:7:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[4]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:6:0:0"
EndSection

I believe this is the root issue in the Xorg.0.log:

Code:

[    13.991] (==) fglrx(0): NoAccel = NO
[    13.991] (==) fglrx(0): ATI 2D Acceleration Architecture enabled
[    13.992] (--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series" (Chipset = 0x689c)
[    13.992] (--) fglrx(0): (PciSubVendor = 0x1002, PciSubDevice = 0x2542)
[    13.992] (==) fglrx(0): board vendor info: original ATI graphics adapter
[    13.992] (--) fglrx(0): Linear framebuffer (phys) at 0x40000000
[    13.992] (--) fglrx(0): MMIO registers at 0xff3c0000
[    13.992] (EE) fglrx(0): No valid I/O port address
[    13.992] (EE) fglrx(0): PreInitAdapter failed
[    13.992] (EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed

The above issue happens for both cores of the 5970.

I verified that they PCI configuration is correct:

Code:

lamething@miner2:/var/log$ lspci -vv | grep Radeon

Code:

lamething@miner2:/var/log$ lspci -vv | grep Radeon
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Hemlock [ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
03:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
04:00.0 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Hemlock [ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series]
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 5800 Series (Cypress LE) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
06:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 5800 Series (Cypress LE) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
07:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 5800 Series (Cypress LE) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
08:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]

After seeing this issue I decided to try an x86 Ubuntu 11.04 to no avail.
Any information/ideas is greatly appreciated. I have been troubleshooting this for 2-days straight now and am just at a loss.

Thanks!

[lamething]

Upon further investigation with lshw/lspci and reviewing /proc/interrupts while I removed video cards and re-added I noticed some weird IRQ issues.
I then had to go into my BIOS and enable ACPI 2.0 and disable APCI APIC support.
Then I went through and disabled EVERY possible peripheral device including the USB controller itself (managing the miner remotely).

And then boom! Everything showed up properly in /proc/interrupts and aticonfigs were working across all cards!

I guess that is what I get for using an old(ish) MB. Haha.

[lamething]

I used to fool with mining on ubuntu, but unity drove me away

#! for the win

thanks for the posts though, also, trying to get my newbie count up

Thanks for the reply, man!

I may have spoke too soon. It didn't run through the night.

I quickly did a:

Code:

apt-get install procinfo

Then ran procinfo:

Code:

irq   0:        135  timer               irq  22:         60  hda_intel
irq   1:          2  i8042               irq  23:         50  hda_intel
irq   2:          0  cascade             irq  24:         50  hda_intel
irq   6:          3  floppy              irq  25:         50  hda_intel
irq   8:          1  rtc0                irq  26:    1831187  fglrx[3]@PCI:3:0:
irq   9:          0  acpi                irq  27:      13551  fglrx[4]@PCI:4:0:
irq  10:      15570  ata_piix, ata_pii   irq  28:       9810  fglrx[0]@PCI:8:0:
irq  12:          4  i8042               irq  29:       8756  fglrx[1]@PCI:7:0:
irq  21:       6972  eth0                irq  30:       5015  fglrx[2]@PCI:6:0:

PCI-3 (my 5970) is showing pretty high interrupts. This unfortunately may not be a long term solution.

[P4man]

Are you using 64 bit ubuntu? If you arent, you should.
You can also try disabling everything you dont need in the bios, like floppy, firewire, audio, etc.

[casascius]

I agree, I had issues with 3+ cards with 32bit ubuntu that magically vanished when I did nothing other than switch to 64-bit.  OP mentions already being 64-bit though.

[lamething]

Are you using 64 bit ubuntu? If you arent, you should.
You can also try disabling everything you dont need in the bios, like floppy, firewire, audio, etc.

I originally was running 64bit but that was prior to me realizing it was IRQ issues.
All-in-all it looks like disabling every peripheral in the BIOS resolved the issue.
The interrupts still seem a little high on my first GPU of the 5970 but the system seems stable at least! Hooray!

[DeathAndTaxes]

All-in-all it looks like disabling every peripheral in the BIOS resolved the issue.

Plus it saves a few watts.  Those IDE controllers, and USB 3.0 controllers, and onboard sound all pull some wasted wattage.