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There are known problems. The driver from ATI turns off the switching between internal and external port. | There are known problems. The driver from ATI turns off the switching between internal and external port. | ||
Revision as of 12:02, 27 October 2005
ATI Mobility Radeon X300This is a ATI video adapter Features
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See specifications from ATI, as well as the "snapshot" data sheet of the 128MB RAM version.
Linux driver
Use Driver "radeon" in the xorg.conf file - it works at least for xorg 6.8.2, maybe older versions too. Currently (as of xorg 6.8.2) this will only give you 2D-acceleration, though. To enbable 3D acceleration as well you need to use the binary ATI driver fglrx.
There is also an open source Radeon driver with 3D acceleration support (merged into here recently), but it's still highly experimental and does not support all features.
ThinkPad LCD
Display on the internal LCD works as long as you set the monitor settings correct.
External VGA port
There are known problems. The driver from ATI turns off the switching between internal and external port.
To make switching with, use the "vesa" driver built into X.org instead of the ATI or "radeon" drivers. This loses acceleration and some capabilities.
Alternatively, start X without an external monitor, and then connect the external monitor. Both displays will be active, and cannot be switched off until you exit X. Note that if the external monitor is connected when X starts, the LCD will be deactivated and you will need to restart X. To have a reasonable refresh rate on the external monitor (the default is the LCD's 50Hz), use the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "ATI Radeon Mobility X300" Driver "radeon" Option "DynamicClocks" "on" Option "MergedFB" "on" Option "CRT2Hsync" "50-75" Option "CRT2VRefresh" "30-82" EndSection
(Tested wth Fedora Core 4 on ThinkPad T43).
See also the related discussion about Additional options for the radeon driver.
S-Video port (TV-out)
Linux support status is unknown.
There is some generic advise here about making it work using the proprietary Fglrx driver.
DVI port
??
Proprietary ATI driver
The fglrx driver adds 3D acceleration.
Linux kernel Framebuffer driver
radeonfb might cause problems with hardware acceleration under X on some systems, vesafb and vesafb-tng on the other hand has been reported to work just fine.
Clock rates, voltage and power
"Snapshot" data sheet (this refers to the 128MB version):
core, memory freq voltage idle, 3DMarks (Windows, 1600x1200, LCD only) Performance 300, 230 MHz 1.15V 2.98, 8.28 W Balanced 183, 210 MHz 1.00V 1.71, 3.88 W Battery 120, 105 MHz 1.00V 1.61, 2.74 W
ATI driver for Windows (inspected using Notebook Hardware Control):
core , memory freq Performance 297.00, 229.50 Balanced 209.25, 182.25 Battery 104.63, 121.50
Experimentally, the difference between the Performance and Battery settings under Linux with DynamicClocks enabled is roughly 0.3W and 3-4 degrees in GPU temperature on a ThinkPad T43. Further frequency reduction leads to display flickering or corruption.
Clock rates can be changed through Rovclock, and are also affected by the DynamicClocks option to the radeon driver.
