I was reading the recent posts about this problem with an ATI Rage 128 not working, and it was not resolved. I just bought a similar card, called "ATI Xpert 128" which claims to use an ATI Rage 128 with 16 Megs of memory. I was doing a fresh Red Hat 7.2 install using this ATI card. Using RedHat's graphical installation works fine, so I knew the card was capable of running at least under some driver (maybe RedHat uses standard VGA during install?)
But once I got rebooted and running, X would not start. Running Xconfigurator correctly identified "ATI Rage 128" and the 16 meg memory. But no matter what, X would not start because of "no devices found" Looking at the /var/log/XFree86.0.log, the failure seems to be shown on the line which says "PCI 0:11:0 ATI unknown chipset (0x5050) rev 0. I saw a trick posted in Feb 2002 on this same list, that if I force another chipset ID by adding a line in XF86Config under Section "Device" saying: ChipId 0x5246 then it seems to work fine. This is not the right solution but works for me temporarily, but what should I do so that this particular card can be added to a database somewhere? It is a new card (2001 anyway) that I just bought. Also let me know if anyone wants to see the whole log file. I didn't want to waste space on it needlessly. Thanks, John Cirillo _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
