Re: ati X300 support?

[Chris Bergeron <chris@pcburn.com>]

Alistair John Strachan wrote:

>On Tuesday 27 December 2005 15:57, Gerhard Mack wrote:
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>>I have it working in X.org with no problem.  I just can't get the drm
>>module working in the kernel.  Last time I tried to just add my PCI ids
>>the problem was a lack of PCIE support in the drm drivers.
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>I'd try again, I have a vague memory of reading a changelog a few releases ago 
>that mentioned PCIe support in radeon-drm.
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>>FYI the fglrx drivers suck badly.  ATI hasn't bothered to keep their
>>drivers up to date at all and the result is that they finally have
>>working 2.6.14 drivers but only for 32 bit machines.  x86_64 is still
>>broken on any recent kernel and it's been that way for months.  ATI's tech
>>support basically gave up after several days and just informed me it
>>wasn't really supported and there is nothing they could do for me.
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>You're better off running open source drivers anyway, it's less hassle, you 
>don't have to worry about every kernel upgrade breaking them, and it's only 
>an X300 anyway -- on my Mobility 9600, I just play a few small games and 
>expect OpenGL accelerated applications to work properly.
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>If your goals are similar, they're probably achievable with mainline.
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The DRI project only supports up to the Radeon 9200 unless I missed an 
update and their page is outdated.  Check the DRI ATI page for details.

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATI

Now.. the fglrx driver supposedly supports the X300, but if ATI won't 
support you on it that doesn't mean much, I guess. 

-- Chris
Editor, PCBurn.com