Re: ati X300 support?

[Gerhard Mack]

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Martin Drab wrote:

> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:20:42 +0100 (CET)
> From: Martin Drab <drab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Gerhard Mack <gmack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>     linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: ati X300 support?
> 
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> 
> > I have it working in X.org with no problem.  I just can't get the drm
> > module working in the kernel.  Last time I tried to just add my PCI ids 
> > the problem was a lack of PCIE support in the drm drivers. 
> > 
> > FYI the fglrx drivers suck badly.  ATI hasn't bothered to keep their 
> > drivers up to date at all and the result is that they finally have  
> > working 2.6.14 drivers but only for 32 bit machines.  x86_64 is still 
> > broken on any recent kernel and it's been that way for months.  ATI's tech 
> > support basically gave up after several days and just informed me it 
> > wasn't really supported and there is nothing they could do for me.
> 
> I don't want to defend ATI here or anything, but I use the 64-bit fglrx 
> 8.19.10 with 2.6.15-rc5 and it works (except for the minor patch for 
> 2.6.15-rc2-git3 and later that we came out with with Hugh Dickins and that 
> was sent to the list not long ago).
> 
> The problem with PCIe is, that IMHO they do not activate the acceleration 
> unless an AGP is detected (at least that's what it sounds to me like). If 
> there is PCIe, there is no AGP, though AGP is not detected, and 
> acceleration is not enabled. I think it may be as simple as that. I was 
> reporting this to ATI a while ago. I haven't tried the new fglrx 8.20.8 
> yet, but if they read the reports at all, then there's a good chance that 
> this may be fixed there already.

Where is this patch? does it re add the obsolete interfaces dropped by the 
kernel?  On my system it won't even compile.

	Gerhard

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<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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