On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, loic.mahe@??? wrote:
> Please note that I didn't test if these boards worked actually !
> I'm only making suggestions and these reasonings may be wrong !
Yes. I understood that.
> 1) I've reworked my list.
I'd still like to know where your original list came from.
> 2) Now, looking at radeon_probe.c, we can note that some boards in your
> list
> have chips which are not in the list of the radeon(4x) man page. So either
> the man page should be updated or this is a mistake ?
Dunno. Not surprising though, given this was a merge from X.Org.
> RC410 :
> - 0x1002 0x5a61 "ATI|RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200]"
> - 0x1002 0x5a62 "ATI|RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]"
>
> ES1000 :
> - 0x1002 0x515e "ATI|ES1000"
> - 0x1002 0x5969 "ATI|ES1000"
> According to http://ati.amd.com/products/server/es1000/index.html, ES1000
> was designed
> for servers and has no 3D acceleration (so Option "nodri").
I agree the driver should know that.
> RS480 :
> - 0x1002 0x5954 "ATI|RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series]"
> - 0x1002 0x5955 "ATI|Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
> RS482 :
> - 0x1002 0x5974 "ATI|RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200]"
> - 0x1002 0x5975 "ATI|RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP]"
> Note : RS485 is a typo in pci.ids - I told that to the guys on
> sourceforge.
I don't think such lists can ever be 100% reliable.
> 3) Continuing on that way, these chipsets are of the same type as those in
> 2) and
> could perhaps be added too :
> *0x1002 0x5854 "ATI Radeon Xpress Series (RS480)"
> *0x1002 0x5874 "ATI Radeon Xpress Series (RS482)"
> *0x1002 0x5a63 "ATI Radeon Xpress Series (RC410)"
> Moreover, the following two boards are also ES1000, but are aren't in the
> supported list,
> they could perhaps be added if the ES1000 chip is kept in the list :
> - 0x1002 0x515f "ATI|ES1000"
> - 0x103c 0x31fb "HP|DL365 ATI ES1000 VGA controller"
> Note : these chips are not in pci.ids now.
Marc.
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