I have a laptop running ATI Rage Lt Pro as well and it works on the Mach64
server in XFree86 3.3.5. Unless I am missing something if you upgrade to the
latest X you should be able to use the ati accelerated X drivers for the card
instead of doing the fbdev way.
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 11:36:14AM -0700, Adrian D Jensen wrote:
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> The "LT" is the "light" version of ATI's Rage Pro chipset specifically for
> notebooks computers. It is very similar to the ATI Rage Pro 3D chips found in
> desktop machines (reduced power/footprint). As far as the Rage Pro 3D chipset
> in a laptop, I think thats a marketing mistake, they probably meant to say Rage
> Lt Pro or Rage Mobility. Rage Mobility is the latest laptop chip from ATI and,
> again, is very similar to the Rage Lt Pro (increased 3D capability/reduced
> power).
> The Rage Lt Pro chipset is supported in the latest ATI (Mach64-3.3.5) X
> server and there are many other people successfully using the FBDev server. I
> think this is also true for the Rage Mobility chipset, anyone already have this?
> I personally have a Quantex I-1410 with the Rage Lt Pro w/8MB and have no major
> problems running at 1024x768x8/15/16/24. There are a couple of caveats though:
> First, for some people (myself included), there is a problem with running a
> FB console and the Mach64 server. Starting with a FB console (say 128x48
> col/row in 1024x768x16, i.e. vga=791) gives you a nice, large text console and a
> pretty penguin on boot up. However, starting the X server, there is signifigant
> flicker in the image. This only occurs if you use a FB console instead of a
> standard text console.
> Second, many people are using a FB console and the FBDev server. This works
> fine however, the FBDev server is much slower than the Mach64 server (I've heard
> the Mach64 is anywhere from 2-4x faster).
> Either way, these problems only exist if you trying to run the X server from
> a FB console. Off a standard text console, the Mach64 server works beautifully
> and correctly IDs the LCD size and interface speed.
> I don't know any of these notebook models specifically but I highly
> recommend the ATI Rage chipset as it is fairly well supported, typically
> contains 4 or 8MB of ram (plenty for virtually anything), is very fast, and it
> can drive an external monitor to 1600x1200 at 75Hz.
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> Adrian
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