Re: ATI Rage 128 Pro 4xAGP
bayer@mat.savba.sk wrote:
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> Hi all!
> I've been trying to get my ATI Rage 128 Pro 4xAGP (32MB RAM) to
> work with X, but have been unsuccessful. Please, help me...
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There is a problem with newer ATI Rage 128 Pro cards with ChipID 0x5446
like ATI Xpert 2000 Pro. Those cards are not recognised by the xserver
up to version 4.1.0. During the xserver startup you will get a message
like this:
Chip: 0 is -> unknown unknown 01:00:0 0x1002 0x5446 AGP fbdev
If this is your problem, then there's a workaround for it: Suse already
has a patched version of the ATI drivers, so all you have to do is to
get the updated xmodules package from Suse:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.1.0-SuSE/suse72/xmodules-4.1.0-10.i386.rpm
Then unpack the package in a temporary directory with 'alien -g -d
xmodules-4.1.0-10.i386.rpm'. Then look in the driver directory
(somewhere in the subdirectorys) for three files ati_drv.o, atimisc_drv
and r128_drv.o. Copy them to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ and
replace the original files. Remember to keep a copy of the Suse files
because they will be overwritten with the next update of your xmodules
package.
btw: Suse also has a patched source version on the server, so perhaps
the maintainer of the debian package can take this into account for one
of the next versions.
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.1.0-SuSE/src/
Berthold Cogel
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