On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Kevin E Martin wrote:

> I've just checked in a large patch from ATI.  Here's the CHANGELOG
> entry:
> 
>  199. ATI patch to:
>       - Fix Dell OEM VE card support
>       - Add better clone mode support
>       - Fix large panel (>= 1600x1200) detection and initialization problems
>       - Remove "PanelSize" and "CrtScreen" options since they are no longer
>         needed with new CloneMode and improved flat panel support
>       - Add "DDCMode" option to detect and use DDC modes
>       - Add "PanelOff" option to disable panel on laptops
>       - Fix corrupted console problem
>       - Other misc fixes
>       (#A.1043, Hui Yu@ATI).
> 
> I'd like get some feedback on how it works for others with both
> desktop and laptop Radeons.

Well, I've been testing the 20020712 CVS snapshot (which includes this
patch).  I haven't noticed any problems on either my 8500 or my
Mobility M6 LY.  I don't have access to the 64 DDR at the moment, but
I'll test it there as soon as I can.

Note that I have *not* experimented with any of the new features, so I
can't give much input as to how they work.  All I can say is that the
patch doesn't seem to break anything as far as I can tell.  ;)

> I'll start working on the other patches that have been sent in
> shortly.

The copy of Michel D�nzer's HARDWARE_CLIP_SCREEN_TO_SCREEN_COPY patch
which I merged against the 2002-07-01 snapshot still applies cleanly
(with only a slight amount of fuzz).  But I haven't tested to see if
it will compile cleanly and run.  I will do that hopefully sometime
within the next few days...

On another topic--are the comments in the source code the only
documentation for the radeon driver?

(I'd be willing to take a crack at writing a man page for the radeon
driver, but if the only documentation is the source, it's gonna have a
lot of "FIXME"s in the first attempt...)

-- 
James Ralston, Information Technology
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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