Bug 40808

Summary:	radeon(4) manual page: Please add ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 as supported hardware
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Filipus Klutiero <chealer>
Component:	Driver/Radeon	Assignee:	xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	git
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Filipus Klutiero 2011-09-12 13:00:19 UTC

The manual page for radeon contains:

 
REDWOOD  
 Radeon HD 5550/5570/5670


There are several more Redwood cards, including the following Mobility Radeons:
5650, 5730, 5750, 5770, 6530M, 6550M and 6570M.

I switched from fglrx to radeon and am using it on a 5650 with no issues since several hours.

Comment 1 Alex Deucher 2011-09-16 15:46:29 UTC

I've updated the man page, but note that the marketing names listed in the man page are just a sampling and that there may be lots of other marketing names out that that are still supported by the driver.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=1a51fce6f6ab169c882a86b936909c0820f27a68

Comment 2 Filipus Klutiero 2011-09-16 16:23:50 UTC

Thank you very much for the commit.

Note that the page is a little unclear on the fact that lists of cards are non-exhaustive. The text announces a list of chips, but gives a list of chips *and card names*.

Instead of something like

REDWOOD
  HD 5650, HD 5700 [...]

JUPITER
[...]

It could be presented as:


REDWOOD (including HD 5650, HD 5700 [...])

JUPITER
[...]

A table would have been nice, but won't work great in manual format :-(
It could be explained in text too.

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