x86_64 and Radeon 9600

Justin M. Forbes 64bit_fedora at comcast.net
Sun Feb 8 05:24:01 UTC 2004


On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 04:49:03PM -0800, Mike Larkin wrote:
> On the eMachines M6805 notebook, which uses a Radeon 9600 Mobility, 
> compiling XFree86 4.3.99.902 or later results in a working Radeon 
> driver. You might try the same approach for the desktop card and see 
> what happens.
> 
The reason this is required stems from the Mobility chips being somewhat
different from their desktop counterparts.  They are essentially new chips,
and the driver was not present in the Fedora Core timeframe.  The 9600SE is
in the same boat... It says 9600, but is not nearly the same chip as the
full 9600 series.  If it works in 4.3.99.x bugzilla it and hopefully the
driver will be backported to FC2.

Justin





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