The driver I'm using is r128 for XFree86 4.0. It was written and
submitted to the Linux community and is part of the XFree86
distribution. I'm using it now with the glide library installed which
is required if using their xfree86 -configure command. I ran it just
fine without the command however it's not as nice and I had palette
problems with NetScape (and ONLY NetScape for some reason).
Anyway, Good luck with that issue. ATI really stinks (it shouldn't take
a week to install guys!!!)
GEForce or Voodoo3 all the way from now on!!
P.S. those glide drivers I know are written by 3Dfx Corp. The makers of
Voodoo cards. Not sure who wrote the r128 driver but it is GNU or GPL I
think
Frank
www.xmission.com/~dmacleod
Ward William E PHDN wrote:
>
> Mine doesn't even work well under Windows.... one of the reasons
> I'm dreading reinstalling on the system. The card can be >somewhat<
> stable... i.e.., I can use the machine for between 3-6 hours before a
> crash under Win98, which compared to the original crash every fifteen
> minutes is not bad. I can't get the new drivers from ATI to work, and
> I'm convinced (now) that ATI doesn't know "Scottish" from "Unscottish"
> when it comes to drivers....
>
> And since I don't know yet who wrote the driver for the ATI for Linux.....
>
> I've only once seen a truly unstable Linux box, and that's because of
> failing memory, I think. <shudder>
>
> Bill Ward
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Carreiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 5:34 PM
> To: Ward William E PHDN; redhat list
> Subject: Re: xterm problem with ATI Xpert 128 (Rage 128) and Xfree86
> 3.3.6
>
> As this was my first ATI with XFree86 4.0 I made a few mistakes (should
> have read the documentation for once!!) I learned what NOT to do
> :hehehe:
>
> Anyway, the Xpert 98 AGP card I am told (by ATI) is the same chipset as
> the Rage Fury. Works pretty good in Windoze (sorry to say) but under
> linux you want to use the r128 drivers. Also I just downloaded the
> glide driver *for linux* from the 3Dfx ftp site. Will be installing it
> today. Crossing my fingers...
>
> I don't think the Mach64 will work with the Xpert card (Haven't tried it
> though). And I didn't see an SVGA driver for 4.0 (did I miss it??).
>
> You can look under lib/modules/drivers. You should see the drivers
> available. For example the r128_driver.o file is referenced in your
> config file as r128. (hope I didn't confuse you with all that).
>
> Frank
>
> Ward William E PHDN wrote:
> >
> > Heh, I'm now dreading reinstalling Linux on one of my home machines (it's
> > a Win98SE only machine at the moment). I just got a new ATI XPERT 98 AGP
> > (my first home AGP... not all of us are rich... I make up for it by having
> > a lot of machines). I was hoping for a stable, relatively fast, low
> > overhead
> > card... but in Win98, it's very "un-Scottish" (if you remember the old
> > Saturday
> > Night Live, say this with a thick Scottish Burl: "If it's not Scottish,
> it's
> > CRAAAAP!"). If found that with my MB/Mem/BIOS/CPU/Video combo, (FIC
> > VA-503+,
> > 64 MB PC100 SDRAM, latest BIOS rev, AMD K6-2 500, and the aforementioned 8
> > MB
> > ATI AGP card), if I turn off AGP 2X in the BIOS, it DID help on the
> > stability
> > a bit... I can now turn on most of the Hardware acceleration and get it
> > fairly
> > stable... but I bought a 2X card on PURPOSE. I wanted a stable card for
> > Win/Lin
> > games that wouldn't eat my wallet for lunch, burp, and demand more money.
> :\
> > Linux installed beautifully under 5.2 on the machine, but that was before
> I
> > completely rebuilt it... only the Sound card, two of the HDs, the Monitor,
> > floppy, keyboard, mouse, and the CDROM are the same as I had before...
> I've
> > added a CDRW, new 10/100 PCI nic to replace the 10 ISA nic, deleted a HD
> > (the
> > partition the old system had as user space... I may still remount that on
> a
> > different machine...), changed out the modem, MB, memory, etc.
> >
> > Oh, well...
> >
> > BTW, as an aside, anyone know offhand which driver to use with the XPERT
> 98?
> > Is it the Mach64? Or the SVGA?
> >
> > Bill Ward
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frank Carreiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 4:20 PM
> > To: redhat list
> > Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @nswcphdn.navy.mil
> > Subject: Re: xterm problem with ATI Xpert 128 (Rage 128) and Xfree86
> > 3.3.6
> >
> > Don't know if this will help. Here are my "recent" experiences with the
> > ATI Rage Fury.
> >
> > I finally got my @#$%^ ATI Rage Fury working with XFree86 4.0. The r128
> > driver works great (but only in 800x600 @ 256 colors). Other's
> > mentioned you can't run Xconfigurator or XF86Setup (yep, it messes up
> > the config file bad!!! Format has changed).
> >
> > The docs talk about running xfree86 -configure (I think that's the
> > command). It "senses" the ATI and wants to load the glide drivers on
> > top of it. Unfortunately I didn't buy the Voodoo3 (a real video card).
> > So after a little searching on their site I found the drivers in
> > question. Going to install them tonight. I'm pretty confident it will
> > work and (finally) give me the colors/resolution I'm looking for
> >
> > Next time I'll just buy the dang Voodoo card or a GEForce... Less of a
> > pain..
> >
> > Frank
> >
> > | From: Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > | >Summary: in an xterm window, line are sometimes rendered in the wrong
> > | >position, but only with ATI Xpert 128 and
> > | >XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-15.i386.rpm. Help!
> >
> > | Strange, I have the following in my XF86Config file:
> >
> > | Driver "svga"
> > | Device "NVidia / SGS Thomson|Riva128"
> > | XFree86-3.3.5-3
> > |
> > | So, I can't explain why you are having trouble.
> >
> > This is interesting, but not surprising. The ATI Rage128 video
> > chipset was not supported in XFree86-3.3.5-3. My problem is only with
> > this chipset and 3.3.6. I mentioned that the same 3.3.6 SVGA server
> > that failed on may Rage128 machine worked with my laptop (it uses some
> > Trident chipset).
> >
> > Thanks for the datapoint,
> >
> > Hugh Redelmeier
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1 416 482-8253
> >
> > PS: I've experienced the same problem with an nxterm window, so the
> > problem is probably not in xterm itself.
> > --
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