ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

This is an ATI video adapter.

Features

Chipset: ATI M54
PCI ID: 1002:7145
PCI Express x16
128MB GDDR1 video memory
Up to 512Mb HyperMemory - ATI's name for their GPUs that utilise shared and dedicated memory.

Linux X.Org driver

Not Supported

ThinkPad LCD

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

External VGA port

(Z61m): Works, but only if the X-server detects something plugged in here, eg. before X started or after a restart.

SVideo port

??

DVI port

??

Linux X.org vesa driver

The vesa driver works out of the box. If you can't make it to show higher resolutions, you may try to use lower color depth -- the best fonts sizes on 15.4 widescreen were achieved with 1400x1050 at 16 depth (highcolor).

Proprietary ATI driver

Proprietary fglrx driver version 8.24.8 adds support for the x1400 chipset (according to ATI changelog). It works, including dualhead, 3d and video (XV) acceleration, when using the fglrx kernel module. (Without it, you get screen corruption including underlined mouse pointers.)

Sample "Device" section for xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
       Identifier  "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
       Driver      "fglrx"
       Option      "ForceMonitors" "lvds,crt1"
       Option      "Centermode" "off"
       Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"
       Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
       Option      "OverlayOnCRTC2" "0"
       Option      "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
       Option      "HSync2" "31-64"
       Option      "VRefresh2" "56-75"
       Option      "UseFastTLS" "off"
       Option      "Mode2" "1280x1024,1024x768,800x600,640x480"
       BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

XVideo support using the VideoOverlay option may not work with recent drivers. With version 8.29.6 of the fglrx driver, you can instead use

       Option          "TexturedVideo" "on"

Use the xvinfo utility to verify if XVideo support is available.

Proprietary ATI driver on Ubuntu Feisty

On my Lenovo R60 (9641HYM) I had a similar system hang (on return from sleep) as described on the ATI_Mobility_FireGL_V5200 , and a similar fix (Step 3) seemed to get my laptop to wake up safely.

That fix is to edit /etc/default/acpi-support. Change the line POST_VIDEO=true to read POST_VIDEO=.

Linux kernel Framebuffer driver

Works with the VESA driver at 1280x1024 (you have to append vga=794 to the kernel boot parameters). Does not work wirh vesa-tng at more than 1024x768 :(

ThinkPads this chip may be found in

T60
Z61m
R60 - Lenovo R60 contains X1400 chipset

ATI Mobility Radeon X1400