Re: New ATI Radeon pciid

[Evgeniy P. <jo...@2k...>]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:00:43 -0400
Alex Deucher <ale...@gm...> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:09:26 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov
> <jo...@2k...> wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:41:37 -0400
> > Alex Deucher <ale...@gm...> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:10:14 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov
> > > <jo...@2k...> wrote:
> > > > Please apply.
> > > > Patch is against 2.6.8-rc2.
> > >
> > > right now the DRI and the DRM do not support r300 based cards such
> > > as yours so there's no point in adding the PCI IDS.
> > 
> > At least it may be found by X and radeon.ko module.
> > vesa had some strange horizontal stripe at the top of the
> > screen so in this aspect radeon.ko is better than nothing.
> 
> X has it's own set of pci ids and should recognize this card already. 
> You patch only affects the DRM which is basically for dma drawing
> command submission and a few other odds and ends. the the X driver
> does not use it for r300 cards.

:)
I know that X doesn't use this file.

But with this addon pci 1:00.0(video controller) at least becames to be
known to the system. Although probably it is better to know nothing
about hardware that can not be used in a proper way.

With best regards.

> Alex


	Evgeniy Polyakov ( s0mbre )

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