Re: video card problem.
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:41:18PM -0400, Angelevangelista@aol.com wrote:
| hey, i have many problems because linux does not support my video card.
|
| it's an ATI RAGE LT PRO on the PCI of a Compaq Armada M300 at the
| compaq site, it says that this model does not support linux yet.
| but, i have a SuSE distribution that works just fine. i have gotten
| this to work a few times, but it doesn't last. all ATI cards seem
| to be supported except this one.
Well, if SuSE works fine, then "linux" (as you said above) supports
it. I think you mean "Debian", not "linux" in the first sentence.
Anyways, I used to have a Compaq (Presario micro-tower) that had an
ATI Rage LT Pro built-in. That card is based on the Mach64 chipset
and has been supported since XFree86 version 3.3.3 (I know because
RH5.2 (the first distro I had) had version 3.3.2 and it didn't work).
Use the Mach64 server and you should have no trouble. It may also
help you to read through the /etc/X11/XF86Config file you have on the
SuSE partition and compare it to the one on the Debian partition. I
found that the RH6.1 installer was able to configure the card
correctly with the resolution I wanted. The RH7.0 installer couldn't
get it right no matter what I did. I gave up on that and just copied
by backed up version from RH6.1 and it worked just fine. (Since that
time I have switched to Debian and configured X by hand using my old
config file for reference. I also have a new box with a diff. video
card.)
HTH,
-D
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