Jerome Glisse [2006-12-23 23:23]: > 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/
Just for the record, there's also airlied's valgrind-mmt that tracks MMIO register writes: http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied/patches/valgrind/ If that's not enough, I extended it and implemented support for tracking writes to write-only registers (and other stuff): http://code-monkey.de/articles/2007/01/08/hacking-up-valgrind-mmt Regards, Tilman -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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