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   Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:06:30 -0500
   From: Kevin Brosius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   > I'm having a lot of trouble getting X to run on my Toshiba Satellite
   > 1905-S301 laptop...

   Here's the culprit.  You need a driver that supports this chipset.

   > (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI unknown chipset (0x4c59) rev 0, Mem @ 0xf0000000/27, 
0xe8000000/16, I/O @ 0x3000/8

   Current xfree86 cvs identifies that chip as PCI_CHIP_RADEON_LY
   
(http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86PciInfo.h?rev=1.138&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup)
   so may be usable on that machine.  I don't know if the driver supports
   though.

Thank you very much.  That's a big clue, although it also means that
I'm in big trouble...

The drivers situation in this case appears to be pretty hopeless.  The
chip is an ATI M6-P (Mobility).  ATI does not give out or sell drivers
for it to the public (it directs users to the laptop's manufacturer,
which in the case of Toshiba is a dead end).

I write to the list in the hope that the situation may be less bleak
than it looks from my (very ignorant) viewpoint.  Is it possible to
find a Linux driver for this chip?

Thanks all the help!

kj

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