[ltp] re: T60p, free driver?

[Alex Deucher]

On 5/18/07, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman <brian.ropers.huilman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/07, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/16/07, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman <brian.ropers.huilman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 16 May 2007 14:45:19 -0400, Steve Newcomb <srn@coolheads.com> wrote:
> > > > Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > > > Am I correct in assuming that the T60p driver has only two choices:
> > > > > vesa, or fglrx?
> > >
> > > In theory, you can use the Xorg ati (radeon and others) driver as well.
> >
> > No you can't.  the opensource radeon driver does not support the avivo
> > based radeon chips (x1x00 chips) as they have a completely new display
> > engine and ati has provided no information about it.  While there is
> > an effort to reverse engineer it, nothing has been released yet.
>
> I stand corrected. What about the V5200 series that I have in my Z61p?
> It constantly fails claiming "No device found."

Right. None the avivo chips, including that one, are supported.

Alex