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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 06/25/2009 03:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Adam Carter<Adam.Carter@×××××××××.au> |
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>> wrote: |
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>>> I havent been following this thread but have you checked the open source |
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>>> drivers? New features are always being ported in. The two options are; |
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>>> - Radeon driver (module is named ati) |
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>>> - Radeonhd driver (module is named radeon) |
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>>> Check out the current features here http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature |
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>>> all boxes are for the radeon/ati driver unless the box contains (RHD, in |
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>>> which case it's the radeonhd/radeon driver). In particular TV out should |
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>>> work on R100/R200/R300 based cards. |
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>> I am scanning the /var/log/Xorg.0.log looking for info on what chip |
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>> this is. I'm not finding anything that says what Radeon family it's |
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>> part of. lspci tells me what I posted here already - that it's part of |
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>> the IGP 9100 family. |
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>> I found this page at the AMD/ATI site but I suspect it's for a newer |
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>> version of the chipset: |
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>> http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon9100igp/features.html |
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> That's an R200 chip. |
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R200 |
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Thanks. That would be good news as the new ATI driver says TV Out is supported. |
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Building a new kernel now. |
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cheers, |
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Mark |
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