ATI x1400 - SOLVED!!! (At least for now)

rabidmonkey · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 3

Ok, for all you guys out there pulling your hair out over the fact your new toy's fancy dancy x1400 card isn't supported, help is at hand!!!

By using the info at the following link: http://toni.to/ati.html
I was able to trick the current ati drivers 8.23.7 (i believe) into recognizing my card and letting me use 1280x800 with glx support on my acer aspire 5672.

Please note, for those of you using mm-sources I couldn't get the ati-driver to emerge using those kernel sources and had to revert to the latest (~x86) gentoo sources.

If anyones got any questions, please give me a yell, but please note, this was NOT MY FIX, I found it on a ubuntu forum, http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=121125&page=2

Good luck everyone, and if anyones had any luck getting the IPW3945 wireless in these things to work with the gentoo 2.6.16-r1 sources I'd appreciate a heads up

Graham

p h a n t · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject:

I can confirm that that dirty hack - that's what it is - works. I tried it with the same notebook (Acer Aspire 5672) and thus the same card (ATI mobility x1400) with ATI's 8.23.7 driver. It wasn't on a gentoo box though, but a suse one (bleh)...
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Sejam · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 80

I've been able to verify this works also on my Dell Inspiron E1705 (9400). I was only able to get the ati drivers to install correctly using the 2.6.16-r1 (opposed to the -mm branch which I was using). My resolution for my screen is now 1920x1200. One side effect is that when using the console window, my font is fuzzy. Fuzzy meaning the pixels around the words are constantly turning on and off in some places.

socken · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 46

Thanks for the link! I'll take a look at it, have a aspire 5672 as well!

About the 3945: have you seen this thread? https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-434817-highlight-3945.html
VinzC posted a ebuild which should work. Couldn't test the ebuilds either, will do asap.

Hope that helps!?

Sejam · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 80

cato` · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject:

You don't need that hack since ATI has released new drivers supporting the X-generation, http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.24.8.html
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socken · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 46

That looks promising! Have you tried them yet? Is everything working like it should?

cato` · Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:26 pm Post subject:

I can't since I'm not dumb enough to buy a card from ATI ... :twisted:

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socken · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 46

hehe...well, it just happened to come with my new notebook....

Thanks for the tip anyways! I guess a lot of people have waited for those news...

Pitr- · n00b Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 18 Location: Sweden

No need for that anymore since the release of the new 8.24.8-drivers that includes X1x00-support.

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.24.8.html

Sejam · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 80

socken · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 46

Hehe...it's always the same...

Hey, I've tried the drivers now. They seem to work! But I don't get any 3d-acceleration. Should that work too? Do I have to build in DRM in the kernel or not?
Has anyone managed to get the new drivers to work properly???

HomerJ · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 34

Same here, no 3D with ATI's driver. Anyone have it working?

Thanks.

darkninja · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2006 Posts: 5

Sejam · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 80