"Stephen R. Gore" wrote: > > Steve, you're also likely to run into problems with the > > Rage128-based video card if you install X. You can download a > > driver from www.suse.com, which worked for me. > > Kent, the NIC problem was easy to fix using the advice given. However, > I'm having more difficulty with the Rage128-based video card. > > Could you please give me a more detailed explanation of what you did to > get it working? > > ---end quoted text--- > > -- > Regards, > Steve > > Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, > useful, technically accurate, and friendly. > Reboots are for kernel and hardware upgrades.
Steve: Go to http://www.suse.de/en/support/xsuse/ about midway down the page is a section dealing with the Rage128. Click on the "as TGZ-archive" link to download it. Copy/move the downloaded file to a temp directory somewhere, and untar/zip it. It'll create a tree of directories, most of which are empty. IIRC, there are only two real files in the tree: the binary driver and a doc file. Move the doc file to where ever you think it oughtta go (I think I created a /usr/doc/xserver-XFCOM_Rage128 directory and moved the docs there). Then move the binary ("XFCom_Rage128") to /usr/bin/X11. Then change the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver to read: /usr/bin/X11/XFCom_Rage128 Modify /etc/X11/XF86Config like so: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Primary Monitor" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" HorizSync 30-86 VertRefresh 50-130 Modeline "1024x768" 65.00 1024 1048 1192 1340 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Primary Card" EndSection Section "Screen" Driver "SVGA" Device "Primary Card" Monitor "Primary Monitor" # DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Then start X and you should be in business.
