[ltp] Which Distro supports T60?

[Alex Deucher]

On 3/14/06, Harish Narayanan <harish@gamebox.net> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> > If you got the T60 with the ati X1xxx chip, you are going to be stuck
> > with VESA for the forseeable future.  Neither the Xorg radeon driver,
> > nor fglrx support the avivo based radeons yet.
> Great, I just happened to order one with a FireGL 5200; which is
> apparently an x1600.
>
> The funny thing is, the web page[1] for the previous card (?) in the
> series, the v5000, proudly proclaims support for linux. So here's to
> hoping, or VESA it is.

The v5000 was r4xx based. the v5200 is r5xx based.  The 3D and
probably 2D engines are not too different from the r3/4xx radeons.=20
The display engine (crtcs, outputs, etc.), "avivo", however is
completely new.  I'd imagine ATI will release a flgrx driver for avivo
based radeons eventually.  Unfortunately, they are not releasing even
basic specs to the avivo engine, so we probably won't see an open
source driver anytime soon without reverse engineering.

Alex

>
> Harish
>
> [1] http://www.ati.com/products/Mobilityfireglv5000/