Re: 4.3.0-5 patch

"Mike A. Harris" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.xfree86
Organization Red Hat Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 29 Apr 2003, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>Date: 29 Apr 2003 10:50:09 -0400
>From: Barry Warsaw <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Content-Type: text/plain
>List-Id: Red Hat XFree86 list <xfree86-list.redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: 4.3.0-5 patch
>
>On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 09:22, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> the "ati" driver is just a wrapper for r128, atimisc, and radeon. 
>> However, it looks like the probe code for the different drivers gets
>> compiled into ati_drv.o rather than the actual drivers themselves.
>
>So it sounds like I should be using Driver "ati" rather than Driver
>"radeon", right?

No matter what you choose, you are using the "radeon" driver, 
because that is the only driver that supports the Radeon.  The 
"ati" driver just unloads itself and loads the proper driver.

-- 
Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat



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