Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (265 mails)

["Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/1/4 Rob Walsh <outlawdrake@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I recently bought a (relatively inexpensive) ASUS ATI card, and it
> appears to lack support in the radeonhd driver.  (I have been able to
> use the binary drivers from ATI, but poor 2D acceleration is driving
> me nuts.)
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 'intrepid' / 8.10, and trying the radeonhd driver
> version 1.2.1-2build2 that they provide.  While that version is
> indicated to support RV620 / Radeon HD 3450, the PCI ID of this card
> is not in the supported list
> (/usr/share/xserver-xorg/pci/radeonhd.ids) --  the IDs immediately
> sequentially before and after this one are there, and manually adding
> the ID doesn't work (though that was a long shot).
>
> Is there some known issue with this card, or is there something I can
> do to enable a workaround?  (I have searched google (generally), the
> mailing list archives, and bugzilla to no avail.)

But what's wrong with that card? X doesn't start? Black screen? Screen
corruption?

Update your radeonhd to at least 1.2.4 version, then try again. If
something fails with 1.2.4, come back, describe problem and attach
your /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

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Rafał Miłecki