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QNX® Momentics® 6.3.0 Graphics driver Patch (Patch ID#171) Release Notes

QNX® Momentics® 6.3.0

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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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.