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Re: Will ATI 3D Rage chips work with XFree86?



Michael Tempsch <d1temp@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:
> On 15 May, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> Re: R. Chris Ross wrote:
> Re: >      I wondered if the D3 Rage chip set boards would work with
> Re: > XFree86.  They are supposed to be quite hot and someone offered to
> Re: > trade me a Wincharge for one even up.
> Re: 
> Re: Maybe I should grab the new 3D GPT once the chipset is supported in
> Re: XFree?
> 
> If my memories are correctl then the 3D Rage _is_ supported in XFree 3.2
> and the 3D Rage II in XFree 3.2A...

>From the XFree86[tm] 3.3 Release Notes:

3.11  Mach64 server

   o Support for 3D Rage II based Mach64 cards is included.

   o Various problems with support for some revisions of CT, VT and GT chipsets
     have been fixed.

   o It is strongly recommended that all users with CT, VT, GT and 3D Rage II
     based Mach64 cards upgrade to the 3.3 release due to the problems that
     were fixed.

> 3.2A is not available as a .deb package, but I've seen several reports
> of people simply replacing the Mach64 Xserver binary from 3.2 with the
> one from 3.2A. Haven't tried this myself, but did do a similar thing
> under Slackware last fall (3.1.2->3.1.2F) so it'd seem reasonable...

XFree86 3.3 should be available in `unstable' real soon now, as soon as
Mark Eichin feels it's right.

- Hari
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