On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 03:51, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Firstly, I am not subscribed to the list so a CC on any answer would be
> nice. :)
>
> I have an IBM A31p laptop with the ATI Radeon 7800 video chip in it.
> This works nicely under XFree86 4.2 when I force the chip ID to be
> 0x5157, the 7500 hardware ID.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, and after reasonably extensive research,
> this chip seems to be a 7500 hardware core with a set of OpenGL drivers
> for Windows that have been tested for performance and compatibility.
>
> The hardware, though, does not seem to differ -- but the PCI information
> does. The hardware identifies as vendor 0x1002, device 0x4c58.
>
>
> I have been happily running this as a 7500 chip, as I mentioned, for
> over a month now and it works perfectly in that mode for all features.
>
> So, assuming that I am right and all that needs be done is add the PCI
> id to the ATI driver, how would I go about getting that done?
grepping for 5157 leads to
programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86PciInfo.h, and then grepping for
PCI_CHIP_RV200_QW leads to
programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_{probe,driver}.c .
--
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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