On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Adam Carter<adam.car...@optus.com.au> wrote: > I havent been following this thread but have you checked the open source > drivers? New features are always being ported in. The two options are; > - Radeon driver (module is named ati) > - Radeonhd driver (module is named radeon) > > Check out the current features here http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature all > boxes are for the radeon/ati driver unless the box contains (RHD, in which > case it's the radeonhd/radeon driver). In particular TV out should work on > R100/R200/R300 based cards. > > >
It's a great question and one I'd like to answer. Someone else suggested this yesterday I think. Thanks for suggesting I get back to it. I am scanning the /var/log/Xorg.0.log looking for info on what chip this is. I'm not finding anything that says what Radeon family it's part of. lspci tells me what I posted here already - that it's part of the IGP 9100 family. I found this page at the AMD/ATI site but I suspect it's for a newer version of the chipset: http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon9100igp/features.html I'm going to pursue this with more dedication as it is really the only current path I've heard of so far that gives me a chance to stay current with Gentoo. What VIDEO_DEVICES setting might one use to get this driver called up? Either ati or radeon and check that it installs Open Source? It is a bunch of work, but it would be great if I can use it. Thanks, Mark DesertFlower ~ # lspci -vv <SNIP> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8107 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Region 1: I/O ports at d000 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at fde00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at fdd00000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0 Status: RQ=256 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=7 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit+ FW+ AGP3+ Rate=x4,x8 Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
