r200, radeon, 810, 830 DRM (why not 830, r200 drivers available?)

[Jim Cornette]

Being confused as to why there are not drivers for the radeon and 810/5 
cards available that do not negatively impact the radeon 7000 7200, etc. 
I looked up the drivers available at the below website. The seperation 
looks like a good aproach for graphics controllers that are similar, but 
need seperate drivers because of interaction from a new driver for an 
older graphics controller.

My main question is if we will see the i830 and r200 seperation of 
drivers in the next xorg-x11 versions?

Jim

The websites
http://www.freedesktop.org/~dri/snapshots/
http://tlug.up.ac.za/guides/lkcg/drivers_char_drm.html

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excerpts i810 and i830

Intel I810	DRM_I810
Module name: i810
Choose this option if you have an Intel I810 graphics card. If M is 
selected, the module will be called i810. AGP support is required for 
this driver to work.

Intel 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G	DRM_I830
Module name: i830
Choose this option if you have a system that has Intel 830M, 845G, 
852GM, 855GM or 865G integrated graphics. If M is selected, the module 
will be called i830. AGP support is required for this driver to work.

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excerpt for radeon r200

Note: If you are using a radeon 8500 or higher (8500, 8700, 9000, 9100, 
9200, IGP9100, etc.) choose the r200 shapshot, otherwise choose radeon 
(7000, 7200, 7500, IGP320, IGP340, etc.).



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