Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Ati Mobility FireGL V5250 support?

[Alex D. <ale...@gm...>]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Jurriaan <thu...@xs...> wrote:
> I'm wondering who I have to send pizza, beer or flowers to to get
> support for the videocard in my Thinkpad T60p - an Ati Mobility FireGL
> V5250. X.org works flawlessly with this card (using the opensource
> driver). Compiling in radeonfb leads to a dmesg output without any
> messages, since the pci-id is missing in the source core and the card is
> not recognized.
>
> Is anybody working on this?

radeonfb doesn't support any avivo-based radeons and never will.  If
you want hi-res consoles, use the the new radeon drm with modesetting.
 It's available in 2.6.31 and supports all r1xx-r5xx radeons.  Support
for r6xx-r7xx is available in 2.6.32.

Alex