Video and ibm t30

carnold · 06-11-2005, 10:36 AM

Hello all! I have an ibm thinkpad t30 (236686u). I am running suse 9.3 and using xfree86, i think. Has anyone gotten the ati mobility radeon m7 and 82845 intel agp chipset on these model thinkpads to work? On the ati site, they do not offer linux drivers for this model video. In fact, ati site says visit your systems manufacturer site (ibm in my case). On the ibm site, they do not offer linux drivers for this model video.

cedar · 06-11-2005, 06:36 PM

does the VESA generic driver work?

synaptical · 06-11-2005, 07:14 PM

i have Xorg on an R40 (mobility 7500). i use the stock generic radeon drivers and intel_agp, everything works fine.

carnold · 06-11-2005, 07:33 PM

Yes, the VESA generic driver works but only at 800x600.

Synaptical: could i ask you how you got your setup to work?

synaptical · 06-11-2005, 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by carnold
Yes, the VESA generic driver works but only at 800x600.

Synaptical: could i ask you how you got your setup to work?

in character devices, i have:

<*> /dev/agpgart
<M> ATI chipset

i wasn't sure which intel chipset it was, so i selected both as modules:

<M> Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support
<M> Intel i865 chipset support

<*> DRI
<M> ATI radeon

then in graphics support:

<*> VGA 16-color graphics support[*] VESA VGA graphics support

<M> ATI Radeon display support

in xorg.conf i have:

Code:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
    Driver      "radeon"
    
EndSection


# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present.  Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen.  A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection

then i guess the chipset module gets loaded with agp, because it shows up with nothing in rc.modules, etc. :

Code:

jeff@beamer:~ $ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
intel_agp              19740  1

hth

carnold · 06-11-2005, 08:20 PM

Thanks for your help! May i ask where is the "character devices"? Here is my xorg.conf file:
Is character devices in the xorg.conf file?

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS0"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS1"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS2"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS3"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS4"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS5"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS6"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS7"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS8"
InputDevices "/dev/psaux"
InputDevices "/dev/logibm"
InputDevices "/dev/sunmouse"
InputDevices "/dev/atibm"
InputDevices "/dev/amigamouse"
InputDevices "/dev/atarimouse"
InputDevices "/dev/inportbm"
InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices "/dev/mouse"
InputDevices "/dev/usbmouse"
InputDevices "/dev/adbmouse"
InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
InputDevices "/dev/input/event0"
InputDevices "/dev/pointer0"
InputDevices "/dev/pointer1"
InputDevices "/dev/pointer2"
InputDevices "/dev/pointer3"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "v4l"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "kbd"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "synaptics"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "InputFashion" "Mouse"
Option "Name" "Synaptics;Touchpad"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[3]"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
HorizSync 31-38
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "800X600@60HZ"
Option "DPMS"
VendorName "--> VESA"
VertRefresh 50-60
UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
Modeline "800x600" 38.34 800 832 928 1024 600 604 608 624 -HSync -VSync
EndSection

Section "Device"
BoardName "Radeon LW"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "radeon"
Identifier "Device[0]"
VendorName "ATI"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
Screen "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection

DiWi · 06-14-2005, 09:06 AM

Hi
Here's my working XF86Config file from my Thinkpad T30 (2366-FBU):

Code:

# /.../
# SaX generated XFree86 config file
# Created on: 2004-07-22T10:16:02+0200.
#
# Version: 4.8
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2002
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (4.8)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#

Section "Files"
(...)
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail"
EndSection

Section "Module"
  Load         "extmod"
  Load         "speedo"
  Load         "glx"
  Load         "freetype"
  Load         "type1"
  Load         "v4l"
  Load         "dbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  (...)
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
 (...)
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  (...)
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
  Option       "CalcAlgorithm" "CheckDesktopGeometry"
  DisplaySize  300 210
  HorizSync    36-60
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName    "THINKPAD 1024X768 TFT LCD PANEL"
  Option       "DPMS"
  VendorName   "IBM"
  VertRefresh  50-60
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"
EndSection


Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[0]"
  Modeline 	"800x600" 36.88 800 832 912 1024 600 601 604 621
  Modeline 	"800x600" 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +HSync +VSync
  Modeline 	"1024x768" 61.89 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 794
EndSection


Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 16
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      15
    Modes      "800x600" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      16
    Modes      "1024x768" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
    Modes      "800x600" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      32
    Modes      "800x600" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      8
    Modes      "800x600" 
  EndSubSection
  Device       "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
EndSection


Section "Device"
  BoardName    "Radeon LW"
  BusID        "1:0:0"
  Driver       "radeon"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Screen       0
  VendorName   "ATI"
EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
  Option       "Clone" "off"
  Option       "Xinerama" "off"
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group      "video"
    Mode       0660
EndSection

Take a look at the Modes and Screen section

It worked out of the box with SuSE 9.1

Dirk

synaptical · 06-24-2005, 01:09 PM

just wanted to add that i tried building in all the agpgart/radeon and drm/radeon options in instead of as modules, and gained a few hundred more points on glxgears.

so now i have:

<*> /dev/agpgart
<*> ATI chipset

<*> DRI
<*> ATI radeon

and the intel stuff built in, too. i also changed xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 (M7 LW)"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
EndSection

hth