ATI Mobility Radeon 7000

This is an ATI video adapter

Features

Chipset: ATI M6
PCI ID: 1002:4c59
AGP 4X
8 or 16MB DDR-SDRAM video memory
External VGA up to: 2048x1536x16.7M at 75Hz

Also known (in IBM literature) as....

ATI Mobility RADEON
ATI Rage Mobility RADEON M6
ATI Rage Mobility RADEON M6MC
ATI Mobility RADEON M6C (eg. M6C-16h)

Linux driver - OpenSource

This adapter is supported by recent versions of the 'radeon' driver as found in X.Org and XFree86.

ThinkPad LCD

Display on the internal LCD works as long as you set the monitor settings correct.

For Xinerama to work properly on Fedora Core 4 you need to first configure it with the display tools, then manually add

Option "MergedFB" "True"
Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, CRT"

to the Videocard0 section.

External VGA port

Works fine with xorg radeon driver.

SVideo port

SVideo out is supported by the ati.2 driver from the GATOS project.
Read here how to set it up.

Linux driver - Proprietary

This chip is not supported by the proprietary ATI driver

Linux kernel Framebuffer driver

tested and working fine under gentoo
tested and working under debian (with re-compiled kernel 2.6.16-9)

ThinkPads this chip may be found in

Problems (and Solutions)

Xorg & OpenGL

See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-451151-highlight-.html for information on how to enable stable OpenGL support. Some of the tricks are:

disable the console frame buffer.
disable the hardware cursor in Xorg.
plus some more.

Additional site: https://stier.is-a-geek.com/~moinmoin/MarksWiki/LinuxRadeonM6LY/Conf1

NOTE: I (User:msoos) actually got DRI direct rendering with framebuffer and hardware cursor, without any fancy setting at all (apart from re-compiling the 2.6.16-9 with some more-or-less standard setting) on Debian testing.

ATI Mobility Radeon 7000