Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 01:21:02 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Eric Anholt <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu> Cc: jmz@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4 patch to support ATI XPERT 128 Message-ID: <3C2925FE.14146.15F7EDD@localhost> In-Reply-To: <E16J7DI-0002M5-00@epic> References: <20011224025658.C86781-100000@xeon.unixathome.org>
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FWIW: I have, only just in the past hour or so, sent the same patch to the XFree86 project... On 25 Dec 2001 at 22:06, Eric Anholt wrote: > XFree86 CVS has support for this chipset already (actually called Rage 128 > PP in CVS; the letters come from the ascii of the chip id) and several > other new rage 128 and radeon chipsets. It turns out 4.2.0 didn't make it > in time for our release, and I never had the time to make a patch to add > support for newer ATI chips in the port. Is there interest by XFree86 > maintainers to have a patch in the port for newer ATI cards? It shouln't > be too hard to make, and could probably just add chip ids and skip all the > other enhancements in the ATI driver in CVS. Another option might be to > use a binary driver from GATOS, which (though I haven't tried it yet) > should support the newer cards and supports more features anyway. > > I'm leaving for a week, so I can't do a patch myself, but I do hope > something can be done about the new ATI chipsets, which seem to be pretty > common. > > On Sunday 23 December 2001 23:58, Dan Langille wrote: > > With thanks to Chris Dillon, I've been able to create a patch for > > XFree86-4 which correctly detects an ATI XPERT 128. I would appreciate > > another pair of eyes to review the patches. I suppose the correct thing > > to do is forward them to the XFree86 project, but I'd like to get the > > solution confirmed by someone else first. > > > > Thanks > > > > xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common > > > > --- xf86PciInfo.h.org Fri May 11 03:56:10 2001 > > +++ xf86PciInfo.h Mon Dec 24 02:08:39 2001 > > @@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ > > #define PCI_CHIP_RAGE128ML 0x4D4C > > #define PCI_CHIP_RAGE128PD 0x5044 > > #define PCI_CHIP_RAGE128PF 0x5046 > > +#define PCI_CHIP_RAGE128PE 0x5050 > > #define PCI_CHIP_RAGE128PR 0x5052 > > #define PCI_CHIP_RADEON_QD 0x5144 > > #define PCI_CHIP_RADEON_QE 0x5145 > -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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