From: "Joshua Saddler (nightmorph)" <nightmorph@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-doc-cvs@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-doc-cvs] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/doc/en: ati-faq.xml
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:35:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NF1jI-0006Ld-FQ@stork.gentoo.org> (raw)
nightmorph 09/11/30 08:35:32
Modified: ati-faq.xml
Log:
updated ati FAQ for bug 293564. also updated info on driver support and other misc. bits
Revision Changes Path
1.47 xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml?rev=1.47&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml?rev=1.47&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml?r1=1.46&r2=1.47
Index: ati-faq.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.46
retrieving revision 1.47
diff -u -r1.46 -r1.47
--- ati-faq.xml 6 Jul 2008 08:29:11 -0000 1.46
+++ ati-faq.xml 30 Nov 2009 08:35:32 -0000 1.47
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml,v 1.46 2008/07/06 08:29:11 nightmorph Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml,v 1.47 2009/11/30 08:35:32 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/ati-faq.xml">
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>1.7</version>
-<date>2008-07-06</date>
+<version>1.8</version>
+<date>2009-11-30</date>
<chapter>
<title>Hardware Support</title>
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@
2D accelerated features. The 3D support is provided either by xorg-x11, or by
ATI's <uri
link="http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html">closed
-source drivers</uri>.
+source drivers</uri>. ATI's closed source driver only supports R600 and newer
+GPUs. Older GPUs will use the mature xorg-x11 driver.
</p>
<table>
@@ -64,32 +65,32 @@
<tr>
<ti>R200, R250, R280</ti>
<ti>Radeon8500, Radeon9000, Radeon9200</ti>
- <ti>xorg, ATI DRI</ti>
+ <ti>xorg</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
<ti>R300, R400</ti>
<ti>Radeon 9500 - x850</ti>
- <ti>xorg, ATI DRI</ti>
+ <ti>xorg</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
<ti>R500</ti>
<ti>Radeon X1300 and higher</ti>
- <ti>ATI DRI, xorg (since xf86-video-ati 6.9)</ti>
+ <ti>xorg</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
<ti>R600</ti>
<ti>Radeon HD 2000 series</ti>
- <ti>ATI DRI, xorg (since xf86-video-ati 6.9)</ti>
+ <ti>ATI DRI, xorg</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
<ti>RV670</ti>
<ti>Radeon HD 3000 series</ti>
- <ti>ATI DRI, xorg (since xf86-video-ati 6.9)</ti>
+ <ti>ATI DRI, xorg</ti>
</tr>
<tr>
<ti>RV770</ti>
<ti>Radeon HD 4000 series</ti>
- <ti>ATI DRI (since catalyst 8.6), xorg support in progress</ti>
+ <ti>ATI DRI, xorg</ti>
</tr>
</table>
@@ -132,13 +133,13 @@
</body>
</section>
<section>
-<title>I have a laptop. Is my ATI Mobility model supported?</title>
+<title>I have a laptop. Is my ATI Mobility model supported?</title>
<body>
<p>
It should be, but you may have a configuration issue due to the OEM PCI id that
such chips may have. In most cases, you may have to write the configuration
-file yourself or use the <c>xorgconfig</c> utility.
+file yourself.
</p>
</body>
@@ -182,9 +183,8 @@
<body>
<p>
-The use of <c>xorgcfg</c> or <c>xorgconfig</c> to generate the
-<path>xorg.conf</path> configuration file is suggested. Alternatively, you may
-use the Xorg auto configuration option:
+You may not need to manually create <path>xorg.conf</path> or modify it. Try
+running without it first. You can also use the Xorg auto configuration option:
</p>
<pre caption="Autoconfiguring X">
@@ -202,9 +202,15 @@
package.
</note>
-<impo>
+<note>
PPC users could use the <c>Xorgautoconfig</c> stand-alone configuration tool by
emerging the <c>Xorgautoconfig</c> ebuild, but isn't required.
+</note>
+
+<impo>
+If you're using <c>ati-drivers</c>, then you'll need to disable <c>radeonfb</c>
+(and probably any other framebuffer drivers) in your kernel config, as it
+conflicts with the built-in framebuffer in <c>ati-drivers</c>.
</impo>
</body>
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