Re: Can't get ATI Rage128 to work with XFree86 on Debian
There seems to be a large number of questions about getting video cards
with the ATI Rage 128 chipset up and running. The following URL is one
that I found most useful in getting my Xpert 2000 up and running.
http://two.ucdavis.edu/~holland/unix/xpert2000.html
The relevant section of my XF86config-4 file is:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Xpert2000"
Chipset "ATI Rage 128 RF (AGP)"
Driver "r128"
VideoRam 32768
EndSection
I had to add the Chipset line to get XFree86 to fire up.
Someone else a week or two ago mentioned having trouble with OpenGL
applications. The application that gives my setup the most problem is
ghemical, although I haven't tried it lately, and with Debian, my
computer (display?) doesn't freeze up.
Debian's XFree86 packages seem to work the best with my hardware
setup, and I haven't had to recompile kernels, XFree86 packages or anything
like that. It is actually the reason why I use the Debian distribution
as opposed to RedHat.
Tony
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