CC: Xpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailing list CC: Linux Mandrake Cooker list CC: Martin Vogt, KDE2 Media Player developer Dear Sir/Madame, I would like to request several features/possibilities for ATI Rage Mobility video driver. I have Compaq Presario 1800-XL186 notebook with ATI Rage Mobility/8MB. Before writing you this e-mail, I carefuly read following link: http://www.ati.com/na/pages/resource_centre/dev_rel/linux.html and checked Compaq web site. You are forwarding (on Tech Support page) Rage Mobility customers to vendors who built systems with your chip, but that doesn't work in this case. Compaq Computer doesn't have Linux-specific driver for my notebook or even page which is dedicated to Linux on Presario notebooks. (I filed corresponding request to Compaq, ref no. 646961) That's why I have no choice but to ask you for support. While basic ATI Rage Mobility driver is working in XFree 4.0.1 and 3.3.6 (I am using Linux Mandrake 7.2 with XF 4.0.1-22mdk), it doesn't support several features which are critical for me: 1) native hardware 3D-acceleration -like DRI-enabled driver for Rage 128 2) TV -out Following link: "Is TV Out support available for ATI products under Linux? ATI is investigating the possibility of supporting TV Out under Linux. Please refer back to this web page to keep up to date on developments regarding TV Out support." is not updated already for 3 months, I checked it before at the beginning of August 2000. This feature is critical for me, as I can't make out-of door presentations with my laptop without it. Situation with RGB-out external video connector is also not clear for me. 3) full-screen video operations, like full-screen Video Playback in KDE2's Media Player, KAIMAN. While MPEG playback undef XFree is operational with KAIMAN, due to ATI driver's limitation it is not possible to have full-screen playback . According to developers, XV support is needed for this and currently it is present for Matrox and NVidia cards, but not for ATI. 4) dual-monitor (second-monitor) feature 5) ATI-specific Brightness and Contrast regulations (presented in Windows driver) I am also wondring if Motion Compensation is supported in XF 4.0.1 driver, as it is a must for DVD playback. Compaq Presario 1800 comes with DVD drive as standard. Due to specific closed architecure of modern notebooks it is not possible to upgrade video accelerator. So, this solution is not possible. Would you be so kind to provide me Linux/Xfree86 driver with possibility to support features listed above. Linux has tremendously increasing marketshare, and become very important operating system during 1999-2000. I beleive all ATI customers will benefit from your support of this operating system. -- With Best Regards, Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) http://kde2.newmail.ru/index_rus.html (Russian) Do you have Arial font installed? Just test it! http://kde2.newmail.ru/font_test_arial.html
