On 21 Jan 2002, at 8:32, Michael Hipp boldly uttered: > Two problems: > > 1) ChipID doesn't apply to Rage 128 boards. > From xfree.org: "ChipID can only be used with Mach32 or Mach64 adapters, > and, thus, specifically excludes any other adapter from matching the > ``Device'' section." > > 2) Where do I find this "magic number" ChipID? And how is a mere mortal > supposed to know such things who just wants their friggin video to work. > > It's entirely different on Win. Windows doesn't ask me what my dot clock > frequency is, doesn't ask me what my monitor horizontal freq is, vert freq > and a dozen other technical details that I couldn't ultimately care less > about. I just want it to work and Windows can accomplish that even though it > doesn't even have a driver for this card. > > And the thing wouldn't work at VGA resolution, or any other in Linux.
Michael makes reasonable points. I think Linux would be better served by trying to figure out and address why this doesn't work, rather than trying to blame the user (or Windows) again. ATI at least makes some attempt to accomodate Linux. However I have no experience with recent ATI cards on Linux, my main Linux box uses an older ATI Xpert98 card. (which was detected and worked like a charm during Caldera eDesktop 3.1 installation... don't ask me about getting the Thinkpad to work tho..) Phil -- Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
