Ati Mobility FireGL V5250 support?
I'm wondering who I have to send pizza, beer or flowers to to get support for the videocard in my Thinkpad T60p - an Ati Mobility FireGL V5250. X.org works flawlessly with this card (using the opensource driver). Compiling in radeonfb leads to a dmesg output without any messages, since the pci-id is missing in the source core and the card is not recognized.
Is anybody working on this?
Kind regards,
Jurriaan
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I'm wondering who I have to send pizza, beer or flowers to to get support for the videocard in my Thinkpad T60p - an Ati Mobility FireGL V5250. X.org works flawlessly with this card (using the opensource driver). Compiling in radeonfb leads to a dmesg output without any messages, since the pci-id is missing in the source core and the card is not recognized.
Is anybody working on this?
radeonfb doesn't support any avivo-based radeons and never will. If you want hi-res consoles, use the the new radeon drm with modesetting.
It's available in 2.6.31 and supports all r1xx-r5xx radeons. Support
for r6xx-r7xx is available in 2.6.32.
Alex
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From: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 10:27:01AM -0400
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radeonfb doesn't support any avivo-based radeons and never will. If you want hi-res consoles, use the the new radeon drm with modesetting.
It's available in 2.6.31 and supports all r1xx-r5xx radeons. Support
for r6xx-r7xx is available in 2.6.32.
Thanks!
It works, but I find the lack of documentation disturbing. As it is, adding radeon.modeset=1 to the commandline switches my screen to the correct resolution. This is partly because I have a TFT screen on this laptop. I've not been able to find anything about changing the resolution, so with a CRT monitor I don't know how you would go about that.
Also, a hint or two somewhere in linux-2.6.23-rc3/Documentation/ would be nice. At the moment, the word 'KMS' is not used in any file there. No wonder I couldn't find it when I configured my kernel.
So far, I've seen 5 good boots and one with a hang (garbage on screen, hanging laptop) - there's room for improvement yet.
Kind regards,
Jurriaan
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Quoted 17 lines · On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 10:27:01AM -0400Quoted 6 lines
radeonfb doesn't support any avivo-based radeons and never will. If you want hi-res consoles, use the the new radeon drm with modesetting. It's available in 2.6.31 and supports all r1xx-r5xx radeons. Support for r6xx-r7xx is available in 2.6.32.
Thanks!
It works, but I find the lack of documentation disturbing. As it is, adding radeon.modeset=1 to the commandline switches my screen to the correct resolution. This is partly because I have a TFT screen on this laptop. I've not been able to find anything about changing the resolution, so with a CRT monitor I don't know how you would go about that.
Quoted 6 lines
Also, a hint or two somewhere in linux-2.6.23-rc3/Documentation/ would be nice. At the moment, the word 'KMS' is not used in any file there. No wonder I couldn't find it when I configured my kernel.
So far, I've seen 5 good boots and one with a hang (garbage on screen, hanging laptop) - there's room for improvement yet.
DRM modesetting support is still a bit in flux (that's why it's in staging). Support for changing the console fb mode was only recently added. It could probably use more documentation though.
Alex
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