VGA out on ATI Technologies Inc M9+ 5C63 [Radeon Mobility 9200 (AGP)] (rev 01)

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Dec 17 07:38:45 PST 2004


On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 09:12 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:01:01 +0100, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 10:16 +0000, Alessandro Ronchi wrote:
> > > I have an iBook with a Linux Gentoo, with this agp video card:
> > >
> > > VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M9+ 5C63 [Radeon
> > > Mobility 9200 (AGP)] (rev 01)
> > >
> > > I've got DRI working, but I can't manage vga out working. I need this
> > > feature even before 3D acceleration: is it possibile on a Linux/PPC,
> > > without ATI binary drivers?
> > 
> > Yes, it will work with an up-to-date X.Org CVS pull.
> 
> If you can get vga-out working with radeonfb, the current driver
> should work if you use option fbdev (I think).  if you want to use
> dualhead, you'll need benh's patch in bug 2064:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2064

Yah, he should use the patches, radeonfb doesn't do dual head properly
(nor mirroring). The fbdev interface isn't very good for dual head, it
lacks a way for userland to know which of the /dev/fb devices are "tied"
together among other things, so I haven't bothered implementing it yet,
it would just confuse the X server.

Ben.





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