On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:16:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everybody, > I'm a newbie in Potato installing: the problem is my Graphic card > configuration on Athlon 900 with ATI XPERT 200 32MB AGP (graphic > processor Rage 128). I didn't find it in the list of cards of XF86Setup. > I tried a conf file with VGA/Monitor generic but the screen is always > black in the virtual terminal for X. The X server doesn't start because > an error 111 (it doesn't recognize the card) and i tried all the ATI > card in the list. Can I find the right driver in testing-distribution > or other distributions? Any suggestions?
Are you running Xfree86 4.1.0?
The advise below infers NO WARRANTY; use at your own risk.
I have an ATI Rage Fury Pro which as far as I can tell is practically
the same card you have. lspci says the device type is 0x5446. Device
0x5446 is not in the list of supported device types in the r128 driver
code, so it pukes when X starts.
I have this in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Graphics Device"
Driver "r128"
BusID "PCI:01:05:0"
ChipID 0x5246
VideoRam 32768
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
which corresponds to an lspci entry of
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5446
for the card.
This setup was suboptimal in that switching to a VC during/after X was
running rendered the VC unusable ... it was alternating dark and light
bars of video. i solved that by compiling framebuffer support in my
kernel and passing "vga=791" to the kernel at boot.
Warning: if lspci tells you your card is not device type 0x5446, use
caution before trying any of the above. I'm not responsible if you
fry your card.
:-)
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