Re: Woody on ThinkPad A31

[Aryan Ameri <a.ameri@linuxiran.org>]

On Thursday 19 December 2002 05:22 am, Mike Phillips wrote:
> > well, dmesg says:
> > radeonfb: ATI Radeon M7 LW DDR SGRAM 32 MB
> >
> > but lspci -v sasy:
> >
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility
> > M6 LW (prog-if 00 [VGA])\
> >
> > Guess I'm a bit confused here.
>
> This is a mismatch in the kernel code somewhere. The later kernels know
> about the M7. On my T30 I get:

So how shall I solve this mismatch?

> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility
> M7 LW

> You definately need X4.2, 4.1 doesn't support the card. And the radeon
> driver is the correct one to use. I've got it working at 1400x1050 ok, I
> did use the gatos (http://gatos.sourceforge.net) drivers though as
> they've got better Xv support, but it does work with the std X drivers.

well, when I am setting up X, I don't see a radeon driver, all i have is an 
ati driver.