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Re: ATI Mobility Radeon Patches



On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 19:26, Dan Christensen wrote:
> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
> 
> > Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> writes:
> >
> >> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 23:19, Dan Christensen wrote:
> >>> Lars Steinke <steinke@hpcip00.physik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
> >>> 
> >>> > use the X11 Framebuffer driver (with the radeonfb driver in Linux 2.4), 
> >>> 
> >>> ["modprobe radeonfb" causes Inspiron 4100 to lock up...]
> >>
> >> the radeonfb in 2.4.17 is rather old AFAIK. There
> >> have been big updates since, which could make a difference. If you don't
> >> want to try the current 2.4.18 prerelease, you could try backporting the
> >> radeonfb changes to 2.4.17. Shouldn't be hard.
> >
> > I tried 2.4.18-pre2, and this gives a compile error in radeonfb.c.
> 
> I got around the compile error using a patch I found on the kernel
> list, but the resulting driver doesn't work.  In a text console,
> after I "modprobe radeonfb", various vertical strips of the screen 
> are repeated.  When I try to start X, I get a device not found error
> (I can get the precise error message if it would help).  Has anyone
> successfully used the radeon framebuffer???  If it matters, I have
> a 1600x1200 UXGA LCD display on an Inspiron 4100.

The radeonfb maintainer, Ani Joshi <ajoshi@unixbox.com>, would probably
like to hear about this.


> I also tried xf86config, and it produced an XF86Config file which
> uses the vga driver.  This works, but is only at 320x200.

The vesa driver should allow you to use higher resolutions.


> Any estimates of when the new version of X will be released?

My guesstimate is 4.2.0 will be released in January.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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