ATI FireGL 5200 Support?

Danny Kurniawan danny.kurniawan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 18:59:32 PDT 2006


On Friday 11 August 2006 08:01, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The open-source ATI drivers available with Ubuntu don't support the
> > ATI FireGL 5200 (as far as I know).  I don't want to use fglrx because
> > I really want to use MergedFB, with which it is incompatible (as far
> > as I know).  Is anyone working on open-source support for the FireGL
> > 5200?  If not, is it reasonable to think I could do something about it
> > (with no experience in this area)?
>
> FireGL 5200 is a rv530 (x1600) derivative. Those chips are not
> supported, and ATI is not providing any documentation.

Perhaps it is possible to use compatible chip, eg. FireGL V5000?? maybe trying 
to put ChipId override. I use ChipId overriding for my Radeon Mobility 9200 
IGP by putting ChipId 0x5835 (Mobility 9000/9100 IGP)...

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