ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300 support

[CivilCK]

Hello!

I'm looking for "ATİ Mobility Radeon HD 2300" support for NetBSD4.

NetBSD4 RC1 couldn't find a driver except vesa. According to notebookcheck.com site it has almost same properties with radeon 1300, which seems to be supported by netbsd kernel (i checked dev/pci/pcidevs).

From notebookcheck.com:
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In the comparison to the X1300 the X2300 is clocked somewhat higher and is also minimum fast thereby by the small number of pixels- and Vertexshader, hands the map however only for undemanding plays (and/or to playing in bottom quality).
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From dev/pci/pcidevs
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product ATI RADEON_X1300 0x7146 Radeon X1300 Series (RV515)
product ATI RADEON_X1300_S 0x7166 Radeon X1300 Series (RV515) Secondary
product ATI RADEON_RS300_7834 0x7834 Radeon 9100 PRO IGP
product ATI RADEON_RS300_7835 0x7835 Radeon 9200 IGP
product ATI RADEON_HD2600_XT 0x9588 Radeon HD2600 XT GDDR3
product ATI RADEON_HD2600_HD 0xaa08 Radeon HD2600 HD Audio Controller
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Is there anyway to adopt X1300 driver safely, or should i wait for sometime and use vesa untill it is supported somehow.


Regards,

[Juan RP]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:04:53 -0700 (PDT)
"C. K." <ck74@...> wrote:

> Is there anyway to adopt X1300 driver safely, or should i wait for
> sometime and use vesa untill it is supported somehow.

It's not a NetBSD specific problem, but rather from the X implementation.

There's no free support currently for the newer ATI Radeons, the only
way is to use the vesa driver and wait until the radeonhd driver is ready.

--
Juan Romero Pardines - The NetBSD Project
http://plog.xtrarom.org        - NetBSD/pkgsrc news in Spanish

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 01:04:53PM -0700, C. K. wrote:
> NetBSD4 RC1 couldn't find a driver except vesa. According to
> notebookcheck.com site it has almost same properties with radeon 1300, which
> seems to be supported by netbsd kernel (i checked dev/pci/pcidevs).

I take it you mean the X11 driver? There's currently no support in xsrc
for the newer Radeon chipsets. The generation you have isn't supported
by the ati(4) driver for modular Xorg either. There is some work on an
Open Source driver, but AFAIK in a very early state.

If you need more information, tech-x11 or pkgsrc-users are most likely
better places to ask.

Joerg

[CivilCK]

I would like to keep NetBSD people informed... So;

I have tried many ways to have native 1280x800 resolution, using "vesa" driver, using alpha release of "radeonhd" driver from suse repository.

I've tried the most recent Ati's 8.41.7 driver in the end, it didn't work. I really thank Brian de Alwis. He suggested me to use 8.38.6 version and released a new wip/ati-xfree86-bin package for me. I got it through CVS and it worked.


I really dont like to use closed drivers, but at this time i need to wait until RadeonHD at "http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Drivers:/Video:/radeonhd/openSUSE_10.3/i586/ " will become stable.

Best regards,