[plug] debian notebook video card

[Peter Wilsmore]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 06:24:47PM -0800, Wayne Vovil wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Thanks to all again. I have LILO working how I want it now.
> 
> Debian 2.2r2 didn't recognise my video card. I expected I would have problems; but I thought it would at least recognise it as it seems to be a common card (ATI Rage somethin or rather - I don't have the details on me).
> 
> What steps do I need to take or what can I read to do a manual configure? Or should I apt to "Woody??" and then try to configure vid card?
> 
> Wayne

That wouldnt happen to be a ATI 3D RAGE Mobility-M3 VGA AGP Video Chipset
or something similar? Like I said before I have had to get this card to 
work under RedHat and Debian using the old xserver for various reasons.
(dont ask). In order to do it you need to configure X to use the frame
buffer device and configure the kernel or load the module with vesa2.0 
fb support. You also need to tweak the lilo.conf file to set the res/
colour depth you want. If you want brief intructions on this send me an
email to pwilsmore at asi.com.au and I can email you the doco I wrote for
it. It is hard for me to judge which would be easier to do to get X 
working. Both may provide much grief.

thanks,
  Peter