Below is a question I am wrestling with to. The solution is to "Pick up http://xfree86.org/cvs" . I've been surfing around this website, but I am not able to find the answer to the question there. Could someone please help.
 
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Koen Warner.
 

[Newbie] SONY F650 -- ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x new chip unsupported?

Marc Aurele La France [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mon, 4 Dec 2000 09:56:14 -0700 (MST)


On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Daniel Lord wrote:

> SONY has put a (heretofor unmentioned by XFree86) ATI chip in the F650: a
> version of the ATI Rage Mobility called the ATI Technologies Inc. RAGE P/M
> Mobility AGP 2X. XF86Config identifies it as a ATI Rage Mobility M chip and
> set's it up with the ATI Rage Mobility driver, but X fails when sending
> trying to init the chip BIOS. I tried all three chips listed in the XFree86
> 4 driver list (two named ATI Rage Mobility with no distinction in the label
> i nteh menu and the "M" labeled one as well) to no avail. Each one fails in
> the same way--the X Server states it failed to initialize the chip BIOS and
> subsequently X fails because no screens are defined. Any ideas from anyone
> on how the P/M differs from the other ATI Rage Mobility chips that do work?
> I suspect there might just be some small tweaks to the the BOIS init
> routines required to make the P/M work with like the M?

> I'lI try contacting ATI, but vendors usually don't respond to individuals
> requesting information only organizations--don't want the support overhead.
> So someone under teh XFree86 mantle might have a better chance.

> I am programmer (know C, C++, Python, Java well and did ASM years ago) and
> have compiled my kernel, built Qt, KDE and GTK/Gnome stuff, so I am not
> clueless when it comes to Linux development. I am however clueless about the
> inner working of X and Xfree86. I am willing to put in some effort here to
> get this working and give the results back to the community. But...

This problem's already solved.  Pick up http://xfree86.org/cvs or wait for
4.0.2 due out "shortly".

Marc.

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