Tilman Sauerbeck wrote: > 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 > Might it be an idea to collect these tools on a single page?
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