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ATI r500 driver: Revision 7
This page describe steps needed to compile "open source r500 driver"<http://lwn.net/Articles/237920/>
Installation is done on "IBM T60 laptop"<http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T60"> with 1400x1200 LCD on current Debian unstable. .pre # prerequesits from packages sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-dev # libpciexpress git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/lib/libpciaccess cd libpciaccess/ ./autogen.sh make sudo make install # checkout source git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/avivo/xf86-video-avivo cd xf86-video-avivo/ ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix /usr make sudo make install .pre Then, I needed to add my card PCI ID to driver: {file: avivo-m52-pci-id.diff} .pre $ lspci -nn | grep ATI 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M52 [ATI Mobility Radeon X1300] [1002:7149] .pre After that, I changed `/etc/X11/xorg.conf` to include .pre Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]" Driver "avivo" EndSection .pre It does find card, but screen screwed and cursor has strange artifacts. |