On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:41:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
