As this was my first ATI with XFree86 4.0 I made a few mistakes (should
have read the documentation for once!!) I learned what NOT to do
:hehehe:
Anyway, the Xpert 98 AGP card I am told (by ATI) is the same chipset as
the Rage Fury. Works pretty good in Windoze (sorry to say) but under
linux you want to use the r128 drivers. Also I just downloaded the
glide driver *for linux* from the 3Dfx ftp site. Will be installing it
today. Crossing my fingers...
I don't think the Mach64 will work with the Xpert card (Haven't tried it
though). And I didn't see an SVGA driver for 4.0 (did I miss it??).
You can look under lib/modules/drivers. You should see the drivers
available. For example the r128_driver.o file is referenced in your
config file as r128. (hope I didn't confuse you with all that).
Frank
Ward William E PHDN wrote:
>
> Heh, I'm now dreading reinstalling Linux on one of my home machines (it's
> a Win98SE only machine at the moment). I just got a new ATI XPERT 98 AGP
> (my first home AGP... not all of us are rich... I make up for it by having
> a lot of machines). I was hoping for a stable, relatively fast, low
> overhead
> card... but in Win98, it's very "un-Scottish" (if you remember the old
> Saturday
> Night Live, say this with a thick Scottish Burl: "If it's not Scottish, it's
> CRAAAAP!"). If found that with my MB/Mem/BIOS/CPU/Video combo, (FIC
> VA-503+,
> 64 MB PC100 SDRAM, latest BIOS rev, AMD K6-2 500, and the aforementioned 8
> MB
> ATI AGP card), if I turn off AGP 2X in the BIOS, it DID help on the
> stability
> a bit... I can now turn on most of the Hardware acceleration and get it
> fairly
> stable... but I bought a 2X card on PURPOSE. I wanted a stable card for
> Win/Lin
> games that wouldn't eat my wallet for lunch, burp, and demand more money. :\
> Linux installed beautifully under 5.2 on the machine, but that was before I
> completely rebuilt it... only the Sound card, two of the HDs, the Monitor,
> floppy, keyboard, mouse, and the CDROM are the same as I had before... I've
> added a CDRW, new 10/100 PCI nic to replace the 10 ISA nic, deleted a HD
> (the
> partition the old system had as user space... I may still remount that on a
> different machine...), changed out the modem, MB, memory, etc.
>
> Oh, well...
>
> BTW, as an aside, anyone know offhand which driver to use with the XPERT 98?
> Is it the Mach64? Or the SVGA?
>
> Bill Ward
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Carreiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 4:20 PM
> To: redhat list
> Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @nswcphdn.navy.mil
> Subject: Re: xterm problem with ATI Xpert 128 (Rage 128) and Xfree86
> 3.3.6
>
> Don't know if this will help. Here are my "recent" experiences with the
> ATI Rage Fury.
>
> I finally got my @#$%^ ATI Rage Fury working with XFree86 4.0. The r128
> driver works great (but only in 800x600 @ 256 colors). Other's
> mentioned you can't run Xconfigurator or XF86Setup (yep, it messes up
> the config file bad!!! Format has changed).
>
> The docs talk about running xfree86 -configure (I think that's the
> command). It "senses" the ATI and wants to load the glide drivers on
> top of it. Unfortunately I didn't buy the Voodoo3 (a real video card).
> So after a little searching on their site I found the drivers in
> question. Going to install them tonight. I'm pretty confident it will
> work and (finally) give me the colors/resolution I'm looking for
>
> Next time I'll just buy the dang Voodoo card or a GEForce... Less of a
> pain..
>
> Frank
>
> | From: Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> | >Summary: in an xterm window, line are sometimes rendered in the wrong
> | >position, but only with ATI Xpert 128 and
> | >XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-15.i386.rpm. Help!
>
> | Strange, I have the following in my XF86Config file:
>
> | Driver "svga"
> | Device "NVidia / SGS Thomson|Riva128"
> | XFree86-3.3.5-3
> |
> | So, I can't explain why you are having trouble.
>
> This is interesting, but not surprising. The ATI Rage128 video
> chipset was not supported in XFree86-3.3.5-3. My problem is only with
> this chipset and 3.3.6. I mentioned that the same 3.3.6 SVGA server
> that failed on may Rage128 machine worked with my laptop (it uses some
> Trident chipset).
>
> Thanks for the datapoint,
>
> Hugh Redelmeier
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1 416 482-8253
>
> PS: I've experienced the same problem with an nxterm window, so the
> problem is probably not in xterm itself.
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