Re: TC1.1 Live CD - ATI Rage Mobility chipset missing in R128 driver

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On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 15:09 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

> You said X drivers don't consider PCI revision, only vendor and device
> ID. At http://www.pcidatabase.com/vendor_details.php?id=240 I find two
> devices with Chip Number "Mobility M3 AGP":
> 
> 0x4C45	Chip Description:	Rage Mobility M3 AGP
> 0x4C46	Chip Number:		Mobility M3 AGP
> 	Chip Description:	0x4c46
> 	Notes:			DRIVER
> 
> In /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids I found:
> 
>         4c45  Rage Mobility M3 AGP
>         4c46  Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x
>                 1002 0155  IBM Thinkpad A22p
>                 1014 0155  IBM Thinkpad A22p
>                 1028 00b1  Latitude C600
> 
> Do you suppose the aty128fb.ko kernel driver contains the correct
> parameter info for one of the device numbers but not the other (e.g.
> 1002 but not 1014)? The display tearing problem I'm seeing goes back a
> long time (prior to F7 for sure). Could we have been missing half a loaf
> all this time?

The issue here isn't the identification of your adapter, don't fixate on
that. It's just the default mode selection, which has little to do with
the adapter and everything to do with the detection of the screen.

It might help to post your full Xorg.0.log in the broken case, not just
extracts.
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