On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > While the most asked question is "Does the driver support my card ?" > I'm uncomfortable about the man page listing the supported cards, > for several reasons: > > 1) For the most part the driver supports chips, not cards. ATI have > a strong habit of releasing chips with new IDs without necessarily > changing the name on the box or card.
I'd be happy to replace that section with a pointer to a more up-to-date list of supported Radeon cards, but I know of no such source of information. (Even the driver status notes for 4.2.0 just say "Radeon chips".) I was tempted to break down support by chipsets instead of cards, but I didn't know enough of the mappings among PCI IDs, Radeon chipsets, and card names. (For example, to my knowledge, all "Radeon 8500" cards are using the R200 core/chipsets. What do the QL, QN, QO, Ql, and BB revisions mean? I don't know.) > It would be worth documenting the work around for unsupported chips: > If your card is unsupported, try adding the line > ChipId 0xPQRS > to the "Devices" section of your config file. > > Sorry, I don't know the radeon well enough to suggest the correct > value, or values to try in PQRS, we may need to list different > values for single and dual head, desktop and laptop, and radeon > generations. Can anyone else help here? If I can get some good info on this, I'll be happy to document it, but if not, then I'd rather not mention it at all. > 2) Man pages are not as frequently maintained as drivers. You should > (must) put a prominent line in the list, saying something like: The > list of cards known to work changes frequently (monthly?) As of 21 > July 2002 the following cards are known to work: Will do. > Dac6Bit: > SWcursor: Thanks for the info; I've updated the man page. (I haven't included an updated version, because very little changed.) Again, I solicit feedback from the entire list. 14 FIXMEs remain, and I know that for each remaining FIXME, there are people reading this list who can easily complete/reconcile the information... -- James Ralston, Information Technology Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
