Hello,
> > > What 0x4243 is supposed to mean?
> >
> > It's a pci id of AIW Radeon 8500 DV.
> So another unsupported one.
No, according to the PCI ID database on www.yourvote.com
0x4243 the piggy back firewire port of the 8500 DV.
This is indeed not a grafics chip at all.
Who the heck has come up with that bogus ID?
In the PCI device listing you will clearly find
the correct ID of this ATI Radeon 9000 card: 0x4966
Charl is finally most right with his proposal:
ChipId 0x4966
(i dont use that because when i am developing
i am always having a full X11 tree handy and
then i just add the IDs directly into my code,
a few seconds recompile of the ddx driver module
and its done...)
you had two IDs in your specific case, thats why:
only primary function 0 does identify the chip,
any further device functions only do have different IDs
if they do provide something different with the same silicon,
a thing that is often seen on intel's bus bridges.
> > Perhaps it has not made into linux kernel yet.
> kernel? support in kernel is required for DRI.
> I'm trying to get XFree working even without DRI.
The write meant something different - the coding of DRI
partially is kernel based and uses the constant defines
from linux kernel header files (which do originate from
the yourvote.com site). As the Radeon 9000 is a pretty
new board the Linux kernel is possibly just updating this,
but the DRI project hasnt identified this addition.
Thats a development thing users should not care to much.
For users there is just the method of browsing their pci
configuration and add the yet not known "compatible" devices
to their config file by the "ChipID" statement.
> > Also try this:
> > Option "ChipId" "0x4243"
> XFree drivers do not support 0x4243. It will not work.
that boy was hoaxing with his suggestion or using the FAQ template?
> > If still does not work try ati.2 drivers from http://gatos.sf.net/
> > gatos drivers also don't support 0x4243 (don't support my radeon, too)
must be the same boy as above
> btw. how PCI IDs are managed? Vendor (like ATI) gets some ID space
> (as in with MAC on network cards) and does whathever it wants in
> that assigned space? Or maybe vendor is required to register
> each product in some global database?
There is an organsiation called PCI Special Interests Group (www.pcisig.com)
that does work on specs. Its a "big business club". And it registers the
misc companys with a vendor ID. The device IDs are in the duty of the
respective vendors. Each of these IDs is 16 bits wide.
If you use up 50 device IDs a year, you will have mor than 1000 years
of time until you have to register for a secondary vendor ID.
> ps. response from ati support sucks, automated message ;/
hmm. that means customer support got your mail. ;-)
anyways X11-DRI drivers are supported by their respective vendors.
-Alex.
