Re: [PLUG] Darwin Question

[noah silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

Erm...

anyone get X working on an ATI Rage 128?
Seems also it doesn't like the "ps/2" setting for an ADB mouse.. though
that's what debian put in by default, even on a machine without PS/2 !

thanks,
   noah silva

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 14:17, christophe barbe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:00:41AM -0500, William H. Magill wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 09:54 AM, christophe barbe wrote:
> > >On the same topic. I have recently bought a TiBook and it comes with a
> > >ATI radeon M7 graphic chip. Linux runs perfectly on it except that
> > >nobody knows how to suspend/resume the ATI chip. I have read that there
> > >are binary only ATI drivers in the last darwin release. Am I right in
> > >assuming that the suspend/resume code must be in this binary or It is  
> > >in
> > >the Aqua code? Also is the API used by this binary driver well known?
> > 
> > Yes and no.
> > I believe that the TiBook uses the ATI 7500 Mobility Radeon chip.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > See ATI's response:
> > 
> > http://www.ati.com:80/support/products/pc/laptops/index.html
> > and
> > http://www.ati.com:80/support/products/pc/motherboards/index.html
> > and
> > http://www.ati.com:80/support/infobase/3505.html
> > 
> > The info on their linux (Xfree86) support is here: (a wrapped URL.)
> > http://www.ati.com/support/faq/ 
> > linux.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=NOT+SURE&eula=&choice=agree&cm 
> > dNext=Next
> > 
> > If that link doesn't work go to:
> > http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
> > 
> > select Operating System: Linux/xFree86
> >        Product name:   Not Sure
> > click accept on the blank license agreement field
> > then click next.
> > 
> > There is a PDF document which describes which versions and which  
> > distributions support what.
> > However, sadly it appears that support is limited to WinTel platforms.  
> > Unless there is another document for PowerPC.
> 
> I should have precised that the situation is different on the x86 side.
> Suspend/resume and TVout are supported using the BIOS which is not there
> on powerpc (execpt for these features, nobody regrets the BIOS).
> 
> Christophe
> 
> > T.T.F.N.
> > William H. Magill
> > magill@mcgillsociety.org
> > magill@acm.org
> > magill@mac.com
> > 
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