Radeon X1300 under Xorg 6.8.2 ?

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:25:03PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 14:15 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > 
> > I just bought a radeon X1300-based gfx card, thinking it could run under
> > linux at least without acceleration but apparently it's not that easy.
> > I installed a fresh ubuntu 5.10 (Xorg 6.8.2), and the radeon driver
> > doesn't detect any card:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Is it possible to force the driver to recognize the card, [...]
> 
> No, the Avivo display engine on the X1x00 cards is completely new, so
> just overriding the chip ID won't get you anywhere.

Hmm. Is already anybody working on the support for the new Avivo
display engine? Maybe ATI itself?

Best regards,
Stefan

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