Hi,

does such patch exists?
i am working on this for quite some time now, and didn't came across any
ATI patch, only for nvidia
as i understand that ATI should work out of the box or am i mistaking?

Best Regards,
Kristijan Lečnik

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 01:06:37PM +0200, Kristijan Le??nik wrote:
> >    Hi,
> >    i was looking hard to get this thing working, and i somehow manage to
> get
> >    two ATI graphic card working under Windows 7 and Debian 6 DomU,
> >    what i learn from all this trying, that the most important thing is
> the
> >    motherboard!
> >    i had i7 860 with VT-D, but it was hard to find working VT-D
> motherboard,
> >    i try gigabyte P55-USB3 with beta bios from gigabyte and i got
> working 3D
> >    drivers for a few minutes and then the DomU would crash,
> >    then i wanted to try asus, but they said that P55 chipset doesnt
> support
> >    VT-D functions, then i look what David uses and get a MSI motherboard
> and
> >    its default bios has got VT-D to enable/disable
> >    currenty i have:
> >    i7 860
> >    MSI P55 GD85
> >    ATI H6670 - working 3D
> >    ATI H5830 - working 3D
> >    Debian 6.0, custom kernel 3.1
> >    Xen 4.2 unstable ( from repo 2. march? )
> >    Windows 7 64bit - virtual
> >    no extra patches
> >    but how i get it to work is strange, if i enable #gfx_passthru=1 then
> >    virtual machine wont start
> >
>
> gfx_passthru=1 makes the passthru gfx card primary in the VM,
> so you need the additional ATI gfx passthru patch so that the VBIOS
> passthru works.
>
> without gfx_passthru=1 the virtual emulated gfx is primary.
>
> -- Pasi
>
>