Re: Linux driver for ATI MP-6: any hope?

On Sam, 2002-12-14 at 19:32, [email protected] wrote:
>    Sender: [email protected]
>    Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:06:30 -0500
>    From: Kevin Brosius <[email protected]>
> 
>    [email protected] wrote:
> 
>    > I'm having a lot of trouble getting X to run on my Toshiba Satellite
>    > 1905-S301 laptop...
> 
>    Here's the culprit.  You need a driver that supports this chipset.
> 
>    > (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI unknown chipset (0x4c59) rev 0, Mem @ 0xf0000000/27, 0xe8000000/16, I/O @ 0x3000/8
> 
>    Current xfree86 cvs identifies that chip as PCI_CHIP_RADEON_LY
>    (http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86PciInfo.h?rev=1.138&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup)
>    so may be usable on that machine.  I don't know if the driver supports
>    though.
> 
> Thank you very much.  That's a big clue, although it also means that
> I'm in big trouble...
> 
> The drivers situation in this case appears to be pretty hopeless.  The
> chip is an ATI M6-P (Mobility).  ATI does not give out or sell drivers
> for it to the public (it directs users to the laptop's manufacturer,
> which in the case of Toshiba is a dead end).
> 
> I write to the list in the hope that the situation may be less bleak
> than it looks from my (very ignorant) viewpoint.  Is it possible to
> find a Linux driver for this chip?

The M6 LY has been supported by XFree86 since 4.2.0, or am I missing
something?


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