Re: RH9, Radeon 9000Pro, some horizontal streaking

[Mike Chambers <mike netlyncs com>]

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 03:57, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> The name used is a rather meaningless label that exists only to 
> be displayed to human beings.  The name presented on screen is 
> not used for any purpose in the actual driver code.  You can 
> configure any Radeon card as any other Radeon card, and it just 
> works.  For example, you could manually choose your video card 
> from the list and purposefully choose Radeon 7000 or even FireGL 
> 8800.  No matter what Radeon card you pick, while the name 
> displayed on screen in the config tool, and config file may be 
> incorrect, the "radeon" driver is what gets chosen, and that is 
> the important part.

I was gonna comment on this too, as I also have a Radeon 9000 Pro and I
don't seem to recall having experienced what he is either.  I will admit
that the config file does only show Radeon 9000 but not Pro.  If he
doens't, I'll submit a bug against it with info just to help, although
as mentioned it doesn't matter :)

> That said, whenever possible, we like to have the proper name 
> display for a given card.  That is only as accurate as the 
> information provided to us by pciids.sf.net, ATI and other 
> sources however.  If you file a bug report against XFree86 (so I 
> get it), and attach to the bug report your X server log file, 
> config file, and the output of "lspci -vvn", and indicate this is 
> an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro, but showing as something else, I will 
> gladly update the hardware database to reflect the proper name 
> in future updates though.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90526

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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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