Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 11:35 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>
>>> split upstream, Mach 32 no longer supported so map to vga
>
>> why those are switched to generic vga driver ?
>
> I chatted with Dave Airlie and a couple of other ATI driver developers.
> None of the newly split drivers support Mach 32 chips, and they also
> don't believe they will work with the vesa or fbdev drivers. They think
> the vga driver is the only one with a shot of working, so I mapped them
> to that, as the best available option.
The vga driver is not supported in X Server 1.5, so 1.4 is
currently the last X Server that has an (almost) working generic
vga driver. I had submited patches to port it to pciaccess and a
few other fixes, but was not yet functional...

But now basically needs an almost complete rewrite, as the remains
of 1bpp and 4bpp frame buffer supported were removed last week from
the X Server tree.

Does anyone have one of these cards? I feel it may actually work
with the vesa driver.

Paulo