From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISIZW-0004pJ-Ld for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:30:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l83KMdYX008383; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:22:39 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l83KF7DJ031114 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:15:07 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E40565FA4 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:15:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.907 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.907 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.908, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bjfPQP3oa3zz for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:15:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 876D56557E for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:15:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ISHPD-0001Wg-BN for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:16:15 +0200 Received: from buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:16:15 +0200 Received: from wireless by buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:16:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:16:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b0709021749g792960c1lcb840b4a56b6e4c0@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0709021834g6e40aca0w3bf86aa660d4c974@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070819 SeaMonkey/1.1.4) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 433b606b-fe9c-45c2-b548-66a2cc0fbdaa X-Archives-Hash: b9ba425bf14806930358a9bc5ee0c119 Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > > Dell Inspiron 1721 is based on AMD ATI M690T chipset, Turion 64 X2 dual core > > processors with speeds from 1.8GHz to 2.2GHz, and ATI Mobility Radeon X1270 > > so How/where do I read which chipsets are covered by which drivers? > I would personally visit the Phoronix forums, sign up and ask the > question there. > On the other hand, why do you need the ati-driver package at all. Have > you considered just using the radeon driver in the kernel until you > get this machine up and running and then deal with this driver issue > later? That's my usual path to making a new ATI machine useful as > quickly as possible. Got vesa working. For now that good enough. I'll give the ati-drivers another shot, once I read somewhere where this chips is covered by the ati-drivers: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 791f It does not even show up in my favorite hardware index: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/hwdata/trunk/pcitable?rev=5 James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list