ATI mach64 core consultant work needed

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Saturday 16 October 2004 21:14, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> GL_RENDERER   = Mesa DRI R200 20030328 AGP 1x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE
>> TCL GL_VERSION    = 1.3 Mesa 6.1
>> GL_VENDOR     = Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
>
> Let me continue this hijacked thread for one or 2 more reiterations
> please.
>
> I was trying to help a friend make an ATI All-in-Wonder work for tv
> viewing tonight, and that caused us to compare a few notes.  For
> instance:
>
> [root at coyote video]# lspci -v
> [...]
> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon
> 9200 SE] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>        Subsystem: VISIONTEK: Unknown device 7c13  <----???
>        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
>        Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
>        I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
>        Memory at da000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>        Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
>        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>
> 02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200
> SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
>        Subsystem: VISIONTEK: Unknown device 7c12  <---???
>        Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel
>        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled]
>        Memory at da010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
> [size=64K]
>        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> -----------------------
> I _think_ the secondary is supposed to be an NTSC output of some kind,
> but I'm not sure the back panel is populated with the right plugs for
> that.

The secondary is a placeholder for Windows. It is meant to indicate the 
presence of a second head (apparently Windows thinks one head per PCI 
device).

>
> Could the lack of properly 'identifying the primary device' make the
> driver pick the slow but safe way of doing things?
>
> And is this then a new variation of the r200 chipset?

Looks like that. Have you tried specifying chipid ? Try some of RV 
variants.

Also, could you check what kind of Rage Theatre his card has ?
Does it say "Rage Theatre" or "Theatre 200" on the chip ?
Once you get the Xserver working please e-mail me the log - for reference.

                          thank you !

                               Vladimir Dergachev

>
> If this identifies the problem, is there a chance of a patch
> eventually?
>
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