On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Michel Lanners wrote:

On  16 Apr, this message from Olaf Hering echoed through cyberspace:

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1. Is the Radeon 7000 supported in XFree86? Rather, the real question
is, does anyone know of any gotchas trying to run it in accelerated
mode?

ATI tends to make new cards which are really just newer revisions of older
ASICs.  For example, the Radeon 7200 is realy just a regular radeon with
64meg DDR (and perhaps higher clocks).  So its highly possible that the
7000 is a radeon VE (considering its dualhead).  If so, then it is
supported.  Even if it isn't, adding support should be very trivial as it
contains the same 1st generation Radeon ASIC.

It is a VE, but I have one report where it fails on a 9600, after
loading vgahw.a or something like that. Maybe it must go into another
slot or the guy has to boot without video=ofonly.

Loading vgahw.a? Hmmm, that looks suspiciously like problem accessing
legacy hardcoded VGA ports on the second bus (which as Ben explains
doesn't support that).

Can somebody please teach XFree to leave those VGA ports alone on PPC?
Are they of _any_ use on any PPC machine?

Any PPC \not \in PowerMac?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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