Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:31:00 -0500 (EST) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: ati X300 support? |
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Martin Drab wrote:
> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:20:42 +0100 (CET) > From: Martin Drab <drab@kepler.fjfi.cvut.cz> > To: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net> > Cc: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>, > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: ati X300 support? > > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, 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. > > > > 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. > > I don't want to defend ATI here or anything, but I use the 64-bit fglrx > 8.19.10 with 2.6.15-rc5 and it works (except for the minor patch for > 2.6.15-rc2-git3 and later that we came out with with Hugh Dickins and that > was sent to the list not long ago). > > The problem with PCIe is, that IMHO they do not activate the acceleration > unless an AGP is detected (at least that's what it sounds to me like). If > there is PCIe, there is no AGP, though AGP is not detected, and > acceleration is not enabled. I think it may be as simple as that. I was > reporting this to ATI a while ago. I haven't tried the new fglrx 8.20.8 > yet, but if they read the reports at all, then there's a good chance that > this may be fixed there already.
Where is this patch? does it re add the obsolete interfaces dropped by the kernel? On my system it won't even compile.
Gerhard
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