Fwd: Re: Xorg wiki page: AMD CAICOS chipset

[archibald]

accidentally sent this privately...

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Xorg wiki page: AMD CAICOS chipset
Date: 2012-09-06 21:49
 From: archibald <archibald at ethernull.org>
To: Niclas Zeising <zeising at daemonic.se>

On 2012-09-06 21:26, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 2012-09-06 22:20, archibald wrote:
>> AMD CAICOS chipset (Radeon HD 6450)
>>
>> legacy xorg (xserver 1.7): untested
>> new xorg (xserver 1.10, mesa 7.11): works (vesa)
>> experimental xorg (xserver 1.12, mesa 8.0): works (vesa)
>>
>> On experimental:
>>
>> =============================================
>> $ xdriinfo
>> Screen 0: not direct rendering capable.
>> $ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
>> OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
>> OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
>> OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4
>> OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
>> OpenGL extensions:
>> =============================================
>
> Just to clarify, this is using the vesa driver, and not any of the 
> ati
> drivers?
> Regards!

I left it to autodetect (xorg.conf): Xorg.0.log said that the card was
only supported with Kernel Modesetting so it fell back to using vesa.