Re: Radeon Mobility X1400

On 4/4/07, Esben Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a T60 labtop with a Radeon Mobility X1400 videocard. Currently the
> free radeon driver (Driver "radeon" in the xorg.conf) doesn't recognize
> the board. Is there any chance it will do that soon?
> Is X1400 similar enough to some other card that I can simply hack the
> driver to believe it is that other card and run with that?
>
> I am right now using the propriatary driver since the default vesa
> driver doesn't have multihead support but it is unstable and I don't
> like how the the multihead support works.
>

Unfortunately the new avivo based radeons (X1x00) have a completely
new display cell so support cannot be easily added to the existing
radeon driver.  There is an effort to RE support for these chips but
AFAIK, nothing has been release yet.  ATI has not been helpful.

Alex

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