Radeon 9550 working.
 By adamk - Posted on June 23, 2005 - 07:13:33   (#16963)
 Current version when comment was posted: 5.1

FYI, I got the 9550 working. The problem is that I had the wrong device ID... "Devices" listed it as a 4173, but I checked under Linux and there were two display devices listed, one with ID 4173 and one with 4153. It also listed it as an rv350. I plugged that info into detect.c and recompiled. It appears to be working.

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 By adamk - Posted on June 22, 2005 - 15:44:25   (#16954)
 Current version when comment was posted: 5.1

Has anyone gotten the driver to work with a radeon 9550? The binary doesn't support it, so I tried editing detect.c to add the device ID. I tried it as an r300, rv350, rv360, r350, and r360, but none worked :-(

Any ideas?

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To vaskas...
 By Tek_No - Posted on June 21, 2005 - 05:37:19   (#16929)
 Current version when comment was posted: 5.1
At first look your card ID is NOT included in Thomas's supported card list so this could be good ;)

What you could try to do is to add your card to that list. Have a look at my previous talkback (the one with the fix for the pixel clock): in there I'm editing and changing the "bios.c" file.

To add you card ID to the list you don't need the "bios.c" file but the "detect.c" file which can be found in the same folder as the "bios.c" file.

First make a duplicate of "detect.c" for backup purposes.

Open "detect.c" in e.g. StyledEdit and have a look at the code: you'll see lines like:

{ 0x4c66, rt_m9, "Radeon Mobility 9000 Lf" },

As we don't know what exactly your Radeon 9000 is based on we need to use "trial-and-error":

change e.g. the above line to read:

{ 0x5835, rt_m9, "Radeon Mobility 9000 Lf" },

Now follow all the other steps I described in my other talkback:

- save and exit "detect.c"
- open the Radeon .proj file
- ALT-U to update project file
- ALT-M to make driver
- exit project file
- copy Radeon driver to the linked folder
- reboot and check

As already said: we don't know if your Radeon is a rv250, m9, rv280, ... based on so we need to use trial-and-error and maybe (probably) need to change another codeline to reflect your card in case your card is not being picked up correctly...

Hope all this makes some sense to you ;)

Take care,
Tek_No
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