Frame buffer drivers for ATI Rage Mobility P/M

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Nov 6 13:27:59 PST 2004


On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 01:08 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Friday 05 November 2004 22:36, Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> > ati's driver only support radeon 8500 and above chips.  Your chip is
> > mach64 based.  you need to remove the ati driers and install a mach64
> > DRI snapshot:
> 
> I don't think that is true.
> It is clear from the source that the ati driver is meant to support
> both Rage Mobility and Radeon.

Note also that "Rage Mobility" is a bit of a generic term for ATI
mobility chips. The M1 (or P/M) is a mach64, but the M3 is a rage 128,
and M6 and later are radeon's.

Ben.





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