[ltp] radeonhd or xf86-video-ati (atombios-support branch)

[Alex Deucher]

On Dec 26, 2007 11:37 PM, Brad Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 23:53 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > Either radeonhd or radeon will give you working display and dualhead.
> > > radeon also has support for 2D acceleration.
> >
> > BTW, the atombios-support branch was merged into ati master, so no
> > need to checkout the branch anymore.
>
> hmm - the xorg ati driver doesn't seem to support my card...
> I did a git checkout of
> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
>
> I did see that the pci id for my card is listed in the source files, but
> when i did an X -configure, vesa was used.
>
> I tried just putting in ati like this but the log file indicates that
> the driver does not support this hardware (no devices found).
> It put out a long list of english names for the various devices
> supported, but mine V5200 was not in that list.
>
> I'd attach that log here but it seems to have been overwritten.
>
> Here's the relevant bit of the device section of xorg.conf
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "ati"
>         VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
>         BoardName   "M56GL [Mobility FireGL V5200]"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
>
> Anybody have the latest ati driver working on a t60p?
> Did I do something obviously wrong?

Did the driver build ok?  Are you actually using the driver you built?
 If you want to replace your current driver, you'll need to pass a
prefix to autogen.sh to it will install in the right place:
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Alex