On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 19:35, pk <pete...@coolmail.se> wrote: > Andrey Vul wrote: > >> The real question here is why isn't radeon-ucode a dependency of >> xf86-video-radeonhd ? > > Well, the radeon-ucode is only for r6xx/7xx chips so pulling it in for > r5xx would be pointless... I just noticed that you have a radeon hd4200 > which is a RS880 chip. Not sure if this is supported yet. Does > acceleration (2D/3D) work for you?
According to git, all the r7xx except for rs880 are on the working/testing list. Which sucks, tbh: why did I bother to get integrated when I could've gotten a better motherboard (with 1394 support) and a $50 graphics card? What's the point of getting acceleration to work if the kernel can't modeset correctly? Is it worth compiling radeon_drm + r700 fw into the kernel?
