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SubjectRe: ati X300 support?
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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