[ltp] ati or radeon driver?

[Alex Deucher]

On 2/18/06, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> Also related to an upgrade to dapper, I'm now running X.org 7.0.0 where
> I had been running, uh, 6.x. The old xorg.conf file caused problems, the
> external display didn't work and I think it locked up at least once.
> So I ran Xorg -configure and tweaked a bit and things seem better.
> (Not perfect yet, but I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong.)
>
> I notice that I used to use
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "ATI Technologies, Inc. FireGL Mobility T2 (M10 N=
T)"
>         Driver          "radeon"
>         BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
>         Option          "backingstore"  "true"
>         Option          "RenderAccel"   "true"
>         Option          "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,CRT"
>         Option          "MetaModes" "1600x1200-1600x1200
> EndSection
>
> But Xorg -configure selected
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "ati"
>         VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
>         BoardName   "M10 NT [FireGL Mobility T2]"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> 7.0.0 seems to ship with both the ati and radeon drivers. Are there
> important differences between them? Should I go back to the radeon driver=
?
>

they are the same driver.  "ati" is just a wrapper that loads r128,
radeon , or ati_misc depending on the pci id of your card.

Alex

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