[plug] debian notebook video card

[Brad Campbell]

Peter Wilsmore wrote:
> 
> 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.

Or you can download the binary server for 3.3.6 that was hacked to run that
chipset. I have it here. I don't recall where I got it from but it was on
somebodys laptop howto page. Works well.
I did however get sick of X3 and compiled up X4 from source. Easy to do and
a cinch to install over the old X for Debian 2.2


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