Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:27:04 -0500 | From | Chris Bergeron <> | Subject | Re: ati X300 support? |
| |
Alistair John Strachan wrote:
>On Tuesday 27 December 2005 15:57, Gerhard Mack wrote: > > >>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. >> >> > >I'd try again, I have a vague memory of reading a changelog a few releases ago >that mentioned PCIe support in radeon-drm. > > > >>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. >> >> > >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. > >If your goals are similar, they're probably achievable with mainline. > > >
The DRI project only supports up to the Radeon 9200 unless I missed an update and their page is outdated.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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |