[ale] ATI Radeon VE and X 4.0.3

[Keith Hopkins]

Hi Geoffrey,

   Two suggestions:  Move to X 4.1.x, and check out the mailing lists 
for the Gatos project at linuxvideo.org.
   Gatos is ATI specific, and deal mostly with the All-In-Wonder cards 
(TV out and tuner fun), but they should be able to give you some good 
pointers: http://linuxvideo.org/gatos/ and 
http://linuxvideo.org/mailinglists.html

   Also, as far as I know, 4.x does a lot of dynamic configuration as it 
starts up, so you usually don't see a lot of the stuff that was in 
XF86Config for X 3.x.x.
   Of course, there are exceptions, for instance, my laptop with X.4.1.0 
and a ATI Mobility chip couldn't decide on the right freq, so I had to 
put a modeline in the config.  But, my ATI desktop systems work without 
modifications.

Lost In Taipei,
   Keith


Wandered Inn wrote:

> I purchased an ATI Radeon VE card a while back and couldn't get it to
> work.  I returned it, and have since purchased another.  I've
> successfully installed this one and am now attempting to configure X for
> it.  I understood that this card was supported but I'm having a tough
> time creating a valid config file.
> 
> X -configure tells me it sees a valid card, but doesn't have the proper info
> to configure it.  I've done a few searches on google regarding this
> card, but not found much help.  I did find one reference to an
> XFree86-ati driver rpm, but I can't seem to locate this thing either.
> It's not on my Mandrake 8 cds and I couldn't find it on rpmfind.net
> 
> Suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> --
> Later, Geoffrey
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