ATI mach64 core consultant work needed

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:07:02 -0400, Gene Heskett
<gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 16 October 2004 21:14, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> >GL_RENDERER   = Mesa DRI R200 20030328 AGP 1x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE
> > TCL GL_VERSION    = 1.3 Mesa 6.1
> >GL_VENDOR     = Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
> 
> Let me continue this hijacked thread for one or 2 more reiterations
> please.
> 
> I was trying to help a friend make an ATI All-in-Wonder work for tv
> viewing tonight, and that caused us to compare a few notes.  For
> instance:
> 
> [root at coyote video]# lspci -v
> [...]
> 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon
> 9200 SE] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>         Subsystem: VISIONTEK: Unknown device 7c13  <----???
>         Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
>         Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
>         I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
>         Memory at da000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> 
> 02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200
> SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: VISIONTEK: Unknown device 7c12  <---???

You can ignore these.  it only says "Unknown device" because no one
submitted the product name for the subsystem device id to
pciids.sf.net.  However, only the actual PCI ids are considered by the
driver.


>         Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel
>         Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled]
>         Memory at da010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
> [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> -----------------------
> I _think_ the secondary is supposed to be an NTSC output of some kind,
> but I'm not sure the back panel is populated with the right plugs for
> that.

The secondary device is just a flag for windows drivers to them them
know the card is dualhead capable.

> 
> Could the lack of properly 'identifying the primary device' make the
> driver pick the slow but safe way of doing things?
> 
> And is this then a new variation of the r200 chipset?

it's a rv280, aka, 9200/SE/LE/etc..

> 
> If this identifies the problem, is there a chance of a patch
> eventually?
> 

This is just a standard 9200SE.  Sorry.

Alex

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