Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO M 1437G (Radeon X700 && Xorg)

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Hello,

Yesterday I've bought for my wife a separate notebook of the type
in the subject line; 6.0-REL installs nicely in it and KDE is already
up, network as well and WLan seems to be supported (not tested yet);

the only problems are (of course) the graphic chip and the sound,
the last one is not so important;

'pciconf -lv' says about the chips:

hostb0 at pci0:0:0:	class=0x060000 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x25908086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82915PM/GM/GMS, 82910GML Host Bridge'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = HOST-PCI
pcib1 at pci0:1:0:	class=0x060400 card=0x00000088 chip=0x25918086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x01
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82915PM/GM PCI Express Graphics Port'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-PCI
none0 at pci0:27:0:	class=0x040300 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x26688086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High DefiNition Audio Controller'
    class    = multimedia
pcib2 at pci0:28:0:	class=0x060400 card=0x00000040 chip=0x26608086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x01
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW PCI Express Port 1'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-PCI
uhci0 at pci0:29:0:	class=0x0c0300 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x26588086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW USB UHCI Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
uhci1 at pci0:29:1:	class=0x0c0300 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x26598086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW USB UHCI Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
uhci2 at pci0:29:2:	class=0x0c0300 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x265a8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW USB UHCI Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
uhci3 at pci0:29:3:	class=0x0c0300 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x265b8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW USB UHCI Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
ehci0 at pci0:29:7:	class=0x0c0320 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x265c8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW USB 2.0 EHCI Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = USB
pcib3 at pci0:30:0:	class=0x060401 card=0x00000050 chip=0x24488086 rev=0xd4 hdr=0x01
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801BAM/CAM/DBM (ICH2-M/3-M/4-M) Hub Interface to PCI Bridge'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-PCI
isab0 at pci0:31:0:	class=0x060100 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x26418086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FBM ICH6M LPC Interface Bridge'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-ISA
atapci1 at pci0:31:1:	class=0x01018a card=0x107c1734 chip=0x266f8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FBM Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 266F'
    class    = mass storage
    subclass = ATA
none1 at pci0:31:3:	class=0x0c0500 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x266a8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82801FB/FR/FW/FRW SMBus Controller'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = SMBus
none2 at pci3:0:0:	class=0x030000 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x56531002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
    device   = 'MOBILITY RADEON X700'
    class    = display
    subclass = VGA
none3 at pci1:3:0:	class=0x028000 card=0x27028086 chip=0x42208086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = 'PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection'
    class    = network
fwohci0 at pci1:4:0:	class=0x0c0010 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x8023104c rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Texas Instruments (TI)'
    device   = 'TSB43AB22/A IEEE1394a-2000 OHCI PHY/Link-Layer Ctrlr'
    class    = serial bus
    subclass = FireWire
re0 at pci1:5:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
    device   = 'RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet
atapci0 at pci1:7:0:	class=0x010400 card=0x107c1734 chip=0x32491106 rev=0x50 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
    device   = 'VT6421 IDE RAID Controller'
    class    = mass storage
    subclass = RAID

the important stuff is the resolution of the Xorg server; the notebook
should support (in Windows) a resolution of 1280x800 but the

# Xorg -configure

does not detect the 'MOBILITY RADEON X700' 0x5653 chip and falls back
to 'vesa' with 1024x768 73Hz:

	...
Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultRefresh"            # [<bool>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "vesa"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "Unknown Board"
        BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"
EndSection
	...

I've already fetched the xorg-server from the ports collection to
have a look into the sources; there seems to be no PCI-ID for 0x5653

what can I do?

Thx in advance

	matthias

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