Re: [9fans] Radeon driver

["Alexander Sychev" <santucco@gmail.com>]

Hi!

That is pity, but it doesn't work :-(.
I have got a "chatoyant" screen with a disappearing kernel output.
The system doesn't react to any commands and I can only poweroff the  
laptop.
I'm going to try to get some logs from aux/vga.

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:30:04 +0400, Anel Philippe <xigh@free.fr> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> You can download the following required files :
>
>     http://xigh.free.fr/radeon.c          ->  /sys/src/cmd/aux/vga
>     http://xigh.free.fr/radeon.h          ->  /sys/src/cmd/aux/vga
>
>     http://xigh.free.fr/vgaradeon.c    ->  /sys/src/9/pc
>
>     http://xigh.free.fr/vgadb             ->   merge with /lib/vgadb
>
> Please note I couldn't test if this version fully works. Indeed the only
> Radeon chipset I have (for the moment) is in my laptop (XPress 200M)
> and I know for sure it doesn't work (I planned to work on the driver
> but for lack of time, I couldn't). So ... pay carreful attention with  
> these
> files (and your computer).
>
>     Regards,
>     Phil;
>
> Ps: I would suggest you to buy Intel/Nvidia's chipsets whenever you
>     can. Indeed newer Ati's chipsets are not documented at all (I don't
>     have docs and reading x11 drivers is ... a real drag ...) and only
>     commercial drivers work (even for 2D only stuff) ... not to mention
>     the fact Nvidia's chipsets seem to be much better designed than
>     Ati one's. I mean that regarding api ... in order to add support for
>     a newer Nvidia's chipset ... it seems you only have to edit  
> /lib/vgadb.
>     This not true with Ati.
>
>



-- 
Best regards,
   santucco