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Re: XFree86 4.0 binaries



Sven LUTHER wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:22:56AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > Brendan J Simon wrote:
> > >     (--) PCI: (0:16:0) ATI unknown chipset (0x4c46) rev 2, Mem @
                                                  ^^^^^^
> > > 0xa4000000/26, 0xa0000000/14, I/O @ 0x0400/8
> >
> > Are you sure the chip in those Notebooks is from the Rage128 family?
> >
> > If it's in fact from the mach64 family, you'll have to use the fbdev
> > driver for now - you might need a recent kernel which corrects broken OF
> > PCI memory ranges from though.
> 
> No it is a Rage128, but a Rage128 mobility chip. I am sure this chips have
> different identifier than the desktop version of the rage128. So this would
> have to be added at the right place (should be not so difficult, please
> report the chip id from /proc/pci, or if a name is given there, look at the > kenrel source for the place where this name is defined.)

The ID is there.


> Then you have only to add it to the right place in the 4.0 source and
> recompile.
> 
> Though i think the best way wouldbe to get the device id, and then contact
> the Xfree rage128 maintainer (on xfree-mga and/or xfree-devel i think).

mga???

I'd say either Keith Packard, Kostas Gewrgiou or Ani Joshi wouldn't be bad.


Michel


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