Re: radeon mobility 9200 in asus aspire 1365LMi

[Andreas Leitner <nozone@sbox.tugraz.at>]

Thanks Michel for your _very_ helpful reply!

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 01:38, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 20:03, Andreas Leitner wrote:
> > 
> > Anyway, right now I am using the "vesa" driver in X11, since no other
> > driver (except the proprietory ATI driver, which had problems with 2.6)
> > worked. I tried XFree 4.2 from unstable 4.3 from experimental (and even
> > the prebuild drm-trunk). I used the driver "ati" and "radeon" but X
> > could never find my card. 
> 
> FWIW, there's xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk 2003.10.05-2, which might work
> with your card out of the box, just waiting to be built for i386. See
> http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/README.Debian for an alternative
> source while people.debian.org is down.

Oh, I see. The Readme didnt mention a deb-src. Is there one available,
or is building it more complicated that that? Do you need a volunteer?

> > I think it could be that my radeon has an ID that the X11 radeon driver 
> > doesnt recognize yet.
> 
> Right, and a workaround for that is always to override the chip ID to a
> similar chip it does recognise.

Oh, neat. I will try it ASAP.

thanks alot,
Andreas
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