man radeon should list radeon 9250 as well as 9550 perhaps

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Willie Wonka <floydstestemail at yahoo.com> wrote:
> hiya folks;
>
> Just want to notify you guys that perhaps we can add an entry to "man radeon"
> for the 9550 ati cards, it appears they are *rv360* like the line mentions for
> the 9800XT -->
>
> R360        Radeon 9800XT (2d only)
>
>    ... also ... the maybe an entry for the 9250, which AFAICT is *rv280*  (cf:
> http://users.erols.com/chare/video.htm search page for rv280 to jump down to
> spot where all the rv* are matched with model numbers).
>
> I mention this for a few reasons; (yes i realize they are all old now) but that
> 3D cutoff point for rv300 and up is still a big deal for some of us trying to
> stay away from (in this case Ati) binary blobs. I ain't no expert as to how
> well 3D works on these lower than rv300 cards, nor the Dual screen
> capabilities, tv out etc. functions, ...nor do i know all the details of what
> the newer 'radeonhd' addresses.

3D, dualhead, etc. is supported on all r1xx-r5xx radeons in the open
source radeon driver.  r6xx radeons are supported but not accelerated.
 The radeonhd driver supports r5xx and r6xx radeons only.

Alex