Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 04:58:11PM -0800, Mark Seven Smith wrote:
| ATI Rage 128 video card
[removed all other peripherals too]
| WHY I BELIEVE THE VIDEO CARD IS AT FAULT:
| Basically, Red Hat Linux 6.1 also had this problem--I had
| to get RH7.1 (with the newer XFree86 stuff on it) before I
| could install. I am using RH7.1 right now.
I agree with you, it sounds like you vid. card is bad. I've installed
RH6.2 with no problems at all on a machine at work with a Rage 128
card. The only problem is that I didn't get X4 working (and I know
X3 doesn't support it well), but it is mostly used for testing anyways
so I didn't spend any more time on it.
| It still seems *VERY ODD* that the ATI Rage 128 will not
| work in the lowest of text video compatibility modes. I
| Suppose this is why the stupid card was foisted on me in
| the first place (I had gone to purchase a different card,
| but was given this one instead, "at a discount", and they
| assured me that it was "fully compatible with Linux"!) Now
| I read at various places around the web, all the
| difficulties folks have had with the ATI Rage 128 card.
If you use the framebuffer stuff, configuring X is a piece of cake.
For most cards you lose performance, but it works well and gives a
nicer looking console too.
| Also, the ATI Rage 128 card is not listed in the hardware
| compatibility list on the Debian site.
That list may only refer to potato (X3) or it may be outdated, I don't
know.
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