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QNX® Momentics® 6.3.0 Graphics driver Patch (Patch ID#171) Release Notes
Date of this edition: December 09, 2005
Target OS: QNX® Neutrino® 6.3.0 SP1 or later
Host OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP1 or SP2, 2000 SP4, or NT SP6a; Sun Solaris 7, 8, or 9; QNX® Neutrino® 6.3.0 SP1 or later; Linux Red Hat 8, 9, or Enterprise WS 3 or 4
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Contents
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What's in this patch?
This graphics maintenance patch provides an update to the ATI Radeon and Intel 830 drivers (i.e. devg-radeon.so and devg-i830.so) in order to add support for the following chipsets:
- Intel 82915 (For X86 targets only)
- ATI Radeon X300 (For X86 and PPC targets only)
- ATI Radeon X600 (For X86 and PPC targets only)
A new graphics enumerator (i.e. graphics) is also provided for these new chipsets.
Installed files
These files are installed under $QNX_TARGET/, under the subdirectories for each supported target-platform:
- PPCBE
- ppcbe/lib/dll/devg-radeon.so
- X86
- x86/lib/dll/devg-radeon.so
- x86/lib/dll/devg-i830.so
- etc/system/enum/devices/graphics
Fixed issues
This patch addresses the following issues:
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| devg-i830.so | new driver for integrated graphics on Intel 82840, 82845, 82852, 82855, 82865, 82915G and 82915GM chipsets |
| devg-radeon.so | add support for newer Radeon chipsets including 9200, 9600, 9800, Mobility M9, X300, X600 |
Known issues
None at this time
Technical support
If you have any questions, comments, or problems with a QNX product, please contact Technical Support. For more information, see the How to Get Help chapter of the Welcome to QNX Momentics guide or visit our website, www.qnx.com.
