On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, imbroto wrote: > I am trying to install linux on a 450 amd k6-2 computer with 64 megs in > ram. I can get it to install but I cannot use the x windows system. I > can get the command prompt. I have an agp video card made by ATI it is > kind of new it is the ATI Rage Fury 32 meg. I am not sure when it asks > me about the card if I can choose the rage fury because it is probably > the 16 meg model they are refuring to and it did not seem to work. I am > not even sure if linux is capable of handling AGP. If anybody can help I > would appreciate it very much. > You shouldn't have any problems with this card, choose the rage fury it will probe for the ammount of ram. The ATI rage series are all just supe'd up Mach64 chips, you can use either the Mach64 or FBDev servers, the installler installed the Mach64. General ramblings out of the way, you never say what went-wrong/happened exactly so i'm going to have to guess, it either never started or gave you a garbled screen. If it's failing to start at all you'll need to supply the error message, if it's garbled you want to get out your monitor manual, if you have one. Somewhere in the manual are the spec's for the monitor (usualy one or two pages from the front or back) it will list the scan frequencies Horizontal and Vertical enter these into Xconfigurator when asked. If there is no exact match just select what ever looks the most similar and it can be fine tuned later with some manual editing of /etc/X11/XF86Config. If it fails to load after this first try a lower resolution, if that fails try even lower, if all fail you'll want to walk thru each setting untill you find one thats acceptable. PS. While we're on the subject of ATI card, if anyone has been able to use the atyfb (ati frame buffer) console on anything other than a mac i'd love to know what you did. I spend on average 2 hours a day hacking at the code then trying every posible combo of kernel parms, and always wind up with the same problem. Garbled screen and a total lockup, not even sysrq functions. The vesafb works just fine on my system, I run my console @1280x1024x24 which yeilds 160x64, which is great but missing a few things like hardware accelerationbeing the biggest one.
