[plug] ati rage 128 xpert 2000 probs

[Beau Kuiper]

Hi,

If you are not interested in 3d graphics, why don't you try a to get a G400 
or some other matrox card isecond hand. (don't bother bying it new since it 
costs a fortune ($350 for a G450)). Or, maybe a voodoo3 or a 3dfx banshee 
card (if you can find either cheaply enough)

You could always try one of the Xfree 3.3.6 servers instead of the more 
modern 4.0 server.  They are a lot more compatible with hardware. (Xfree 4.0 
is great if you can get it running. I had to modify the source code in the 
G400 driver to get Xfree 4.0.0 to work with it :-) )

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

On Monday 23 July 2001 17:41, John Knight wrote:
> hi all!
> I recently got myself the previously mentioned card (an ati rage 128 xpert
> 2000 if you don't want to look in the title) as a replacement for my tnt2
> m64. If you want to know why I got the ati card, it's that nVidia's
> "unified drivers" cause a sound problem with a lot of via based
> motherboards. Anyway, this card solved my "windoze" problem, but I've got
> the absolute tragedy of X not liking it. Every installation programme (ie.
> Mandrake, Redhat) that I've run works fine, but when it tries to set it up
> for X, it gets an error and says to change some settings.
>
> The monitor setup is fine and I've tried out all the ati card choices that
> use a rage 128 chipset but I still get the same problem, leaving me in
> limbo. The next logical step was to try it out with just the "standard svga
> card" setting or the vga16 server, but this actually hanged the machine!
>
> Has anyone else had this prob and do you know how to fix it? I've got a
> VIA-Apollo MVP3G2 chipset with an AMD K62-500 CPU. The TNT2 worked fine
> (apart from the sound prob though, which is both a Windows and Linux
> thing).
>
> Any help would be appreciated :)
> anarchist tomato
> P.S. The TNT2 isn't actually mine, so it's not an option.
>
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