ATI Mobility X1400

[Jerome Glisse]

On 5/26/06, Sebastian Bergmann <sb at sebastian-bergmann.de> wrote:
>  Sorry, it's me again asking about the ATI Mobility X1400 chip this time.
>
>  How well is this chip supported by X.org 7.1? Does it work in "dual
>  mode" (output on internal LCD and external VGA)? Is 3D/GLX/EXA/etc.
>  supported?
>
>  I read on the ATI website that recent versions of the binary driver
>  support this chip but I also found a couple of blog entries and forum
>  posts that said the opposite. Before I buy a notebook (ThinkPad T60)
>  that has this chip I need to make sure that I can do presentations with
>  it, for instance.
>

The ATI X1xxx family are not supported at all by the open source driver.
They should work with the vesa &/or vga driver (no acceleration of any kind)
or with the ATI proprietary driver. To my knowledge ATI still hasn't
provided Xorg people any informations for basic 2d support.

best,
Jerome Glisse