ATI Mobility Radeon X300

This is a ATI video adapter

Features

Chipset: ATI M22
PCI ID: 1002:5460
PCI Express x16
32, 64 or 128MB GDDR1 video memory

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.

Workarounds

Don't use the ATI driver if you want to use this feature - use the VESA driver instead.
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. To have a reasona ble refresh rate on the external monitor (the default is the LCD's 50Hz), use the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

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.

ThinkPad's this chip may be found in

ATI Mobility Radeon X300