Daniel Thumim wrote:
>
> From: "James Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:43:38 -0400
>
> I have tried and tried but I still can't get X to run on my
> laptop. I have a Sager 8550 with an ATI Rage PRO LT. Can some one
> who has gotten X to run on their system give me some help.
>
> I have an ASUS laptop with ATI Rage Pro LT. I have it working with
> Linux 2.2. I specify vga=0x0305 in lilo.conf, and I use XF86_FBDev.
> I don't get acceleration this way, but it works, and the performance
> is better than I had expected. To get acceleration you have to either
> wait for XFree to support this chipset or buy a commercial X server
> that already supports it.
>
> Note that this method does not work with Linux 2.0; only 2.2 and up.
> I'm referring to kernel versions, of course.
I have specified vga=792 on an Armada 1750, and use XF96_Mach64 and get
acceleration, and things seem to work fine!
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