On 12/28/05, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi list,
> i would like to know if the x11-drm ebuild, as of now
> (x11-drm-20051223), supports the r300 and r350 ATI video cards.
I tried to get the r300 driver working on my system a few weeks ago.
Unfortunately my PCIe Mobility X600 is not supported yet, so I never
got anything working. You need a 2.6.15 kernel, modular X.org 7, and
x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati.
As for the list of cards supported:
1. Run "lspci" to identify the slot of your adapter:
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Tech...
2. Run "lspci -n -s <slot>" to get the vendor and card ID:
carcharias rjf # lspci -n -s 03:00.0
03:00.0 0300: 1002:3150
>From the above, the vendor ID is 0x1002, and the card ID is 0x3150.
3. In the kernel sources, look at drivers/char/drm/drm_pciids.h to see
if the vendor and card ID appears in the table. If it does, your card
is "supported", and might actually work. An example line from this
table is:
{0x1002, 0x4E47, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_R300}, \
The first two numbers are the vendor and card IDs.
> In particular what is the best open source configuration for such a
> card and xorg (6.8.2)?
For open source, you should use the radeon driver:
Section "Device"
Identifier "X600"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "RV350 [Mobility Radeon X600]"
EndSection
-Richard
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