[plug] ati rage 128 xpert 2000 probs

[John Knight]

Sorry, the older XFree didn't work (yes, it was 3.3.6). Luckily I haven't 
got any translation duties at present, but when I do, I'll stick in a bog 
standard-cheap-shite card in place that'll be supported so I can at least 
carry on with Kbabel (goodbye lovely OpenGL XMMS visualisations!), then bung 
the ati card back in when I'm going into "windoze".

If anyone knows anything about ati probs, PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO TELL ME! 
Graphic acceleration under X is really quite nice and I do miss it.

cheers for the help! :)

>
>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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