Re: Radeon X550 == Radeon X300 ?

["Michel Dänzer" <daenzer at debian dot org>]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 00:33 +0200, amla at coitt dot es wrote:
> I cannot manage to set up my ATI Radeon X550 on my AMD64, so the first 
> question is whether X550 is supported or not by the last driver version. I 
> am supposing it is so because it appears listed as X300/X550 in some 
> previous ATI release notes, but not in others (last version for instance). 

I think the release notes only mention the cards that are newly
supported in the given release. You can find the full list of supported
cards somewhere in the driver download area and (with some caveats) in
the X server log file.

> I tried even to change ChipID on my xorg.conf to that displayed by lspci as 
> follows: 
>
> 0000:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 
> 5b63 ----- THIS ONE (as ChipID 0x5b63)
> 0000:02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5b73 
>
> but it still does not work, 

Sure, overriding the chip's ID to its actual ID doesn't have any
effect. :)

> so I guess I could try the ChipID from an X300. Anyone knows this ChipID? 

Should be in the log file.


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