new ATI Mach64 boards, expert@work, 3D RAGE II+
>From a search of the list archives looking for info on
the Mach64 server, I've seen references to the fact that some
of the recent ATI boards (expert@work, 3D RAGE II+ chips) don't
work with the Mach64 server supplied with Debian 1.3.1.r6. One
reply indicated that downloading the XFree86 package numbered
*_3.3.2-3.deb (which I found in the unstable hierarchy) would fix
the problem. I started with the Mach64 server of that release and
immediately got a dependency problem: it requires libc6. Do I
understand correctly that libc6 will only work with the full
Debian 2.0 release and that I should wait until this release is
closer to stable before I update the XF86 package for these new
boards? Or is there another way of using the newer drivers
(re-compiling the source, or something) that allows me to use
these boards with 1.3.1.r6?
One problem with the 3D RAGE II+ (sorry for the shouting, but
it's the chip name given not-too-intelligently, in my mind, by
the manufacturers) seems related to video memory. Our boards have
4M, but the normal configuration setup (xf86config) comments out
the "VideoRam 4096" line in the XF86Config file. The server
refuses to start with messages indicating that the board has
insufficient memory for any of the listed modes, an indication, I
assume, that the server is not probing the board properly for memory
info. When I uncomment this line, I get some results with some modes,
but multiple images on the screen, etc. This reminds me of the problems
I had about 2 years ago when updating XFree86 (to 3.1 or something)
immediately fixed these problems, rather than having to re-calculate the
figures in the mode lines.
Thanks,
--Steve Izma, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Waterloo, Ont., Canada N2L 3C5
(519) 884-0710 ext. 6125 FAX: (519) 725-1399
steve@nestor.wlu.ca or sizma@mach1.wlu.ca
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