Re: Problem with X

[Torrey Peacock <cybertori@home.com>]

James,
I have a Rage 128 Pro card (XPert2000 Pro) and have got it working with 
XFree86 version 3.3.6.  The tip on David St. Clair's page was crucial, of 
adding "ChipId 0x5246" to the "Device" section of XF86Config.  With that 
modification, the r128 driver will work.

How did you manage to install 4.01?  The Debian package is not available 
yet, and I could not get the source to compile - too many broken 
dependencies.

Torrey


At 05:46 PM 7/26/00 -0300, James Polson wrote:
(snipped)
> Hi,
>
> I'm still trying to setup X windows and make it compatible
> with my ATI Rage 128 Pro video card. This card is not supported
> with the XFree86 software supplied with slink Debian linux.
> Fortunately, I found help on the web (David St. Clair at
> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~distclai/rage128-howto.html) who
> wrote a configuation tool to setup XF86Config. The problem
> is that it only works with XFree86 4.x - so I installed the
> 4.0.1 (?)  version (the most recent available). So I constructed
> a proper(?) XF86Config and ran startx. The result: it looks
> okay - but everything is frozen. The system locks. Hmmm.....