Re: More on ATI Radeon 9200SE

On Monday 15 December 2003 08:48, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Gene C. wrote:
[snip]
>
> >IMHO, this is one of those situations where you will need to
> >depend on the community to report the info on new adapters.
>
> That is always appreciated of course.  I generally ask ATI
> directly though and get a list back within a day or so.  I missed
> a few when updating the lists last, but that is quite easy to do
> since it requires making rather tedious updates in about 5
> different locations, some in XFree86 source code, some in our
> hwdata, and then again on the official pci ID database on
> sourceforge, etc.  I'll fix that sometime, but until then people
> can use the ChipID keyword to work around it easily enough, so
> it's not a mission critical priority currently, but I'll
> eventually get around to it during FC2 development, and probably
> release an update for FC1 also.

The "suprising" thing is that the 9200SE adapter was properly recognized by 
XFree86 and works fine but was not recognized by redhat-config-xfree86 since 
the pci info was not in hwdata.  Regardless, there is no hurry since "it 
works."
-- 
Gene


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