On 12/23/06, Magnus Ahlberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that there has been some discussion about the r500 chip and how > tough it will be to create a working driver for it. However, I for one > would love to see an open alternative to the fglrx and I want to know, > where to start? I own a laptop with a X1600 mobility radeon card. > > The current status of the radeon driver is that xorg bails out with > "no devices found". > Is there any possibility to make the radeon driver to recognize my > video card and at least try to initialize it? Where do I start? Are > there any tools I can run or anything that will help a more > experienced developer to point me in the right direction? > > Cheers. >
>From limited informations we got on those chips we miss the 2D video mode setup. Basicly you need to spy bios/vbe try using a tools such as mjg59/airlied vbe, you might also want to spy fglrx maybe libsegfault can help you people.freedesktop.org/~glisse/ I am myself planning to take a look into that matter in the few coming days. Maybe i will got somethings in couple of day. best, Jerome Glisse ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
