Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-17 Thread Mich Lanners
On 16 Aug, this message from W. Crowshaw echoed through cyberspace: I've come to the conclusion that there is something fundamentally wrong with either this driver or the way this card is recognized by the kernel or some combination of both. Maybe it has something to do with the pci

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 23:18, W. Crowshaw wrote: Any ideas, or should I just sell the cards on e-bay? I'd try a newer XFree86 version first. Really? Say it isn't so. Upgrading to debian unstable isn't very enticing and damn if I want to build another app from scratch. If the

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-16 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:16:01PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Yes, I have an Xclaim3D with 3D RAGE II+. Works fine with atyfb (I originally wrote atyfb for that card ;-). I still use XFree86 3.x BTW. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert Cool! You

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, W. Crowshaw wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:40:58AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: It could be a Xclaim3D. AFAIK these were built with either a 3D RAGE II+ (like mine) or a 3D RAGE Pro. So you're using a Xclaim3D card? Have you experienced the problems that I am

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-15 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:40:58AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: It could be a Xclaim3D. AFAIK these were built with either a 3D RAGE II+ (like mine) or a 3D RAGE Pro. smaller chip that says Nexus GA 42601 on it. That's probably the firmware ROM. So it contains `Nexus GA' firmware, and

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-15 Thread W. Crowshaw
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:21:43AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:17, W. Crowshaw wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:28:46PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 23:17, William Crowshaw wrote: I would really like to get 2 monitors going [...]

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-15 Thread Simon Vallet
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:18:44 -0500 W. Crowshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry I didn't follow the discussion... maybe this won't apply to your particuklar issue. However, if you have troubles getting an ATI XClaim 3D working with X, I can remember I had one working. The card was an ATI XCLaim

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-15 Thread vinai
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, W. Crowshaw wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:21:43AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:17, W. Crowshaw wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:28:46PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 23:17, William Crowshaw wrote: I would

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-15 Thread W. Crowshaw
Just poked around in my 7500 Open Firmware with the card attached. The card is identified as a NexusGA. If it was an XClaim3D, the firmware would have said, because they use that card as an example on the Apple Firmware how-to's. Just another clue. -- wcrowshaw

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, W. Crowshaw wrote: Thanks for your response. See my responsed below. On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:28:46PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 23:17, William Crowshaw wrote: 4) the ATI card I believe is a NexusGA, because it matches specs on the ATI

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:17, W. Crowshaw wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:28:46PM +0200, Michel Dnzer wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 23:17, William Crowshaw wrote: I would really like to get 2 monitors going [...] The atimisc driver doesn't support this yet. Yep, I know. The

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-13 Thread W. Crowshaw
Michel, Thanks for your response. See my responsed below. On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:28:46PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 23:17, William Crowshaw wrote: 4) the ATI card I believe is a NexusGA, because it matches specs on the ATI website. But the chip on it

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-13 Thread W. Crowshaw
Thomas, Thanks for your help. However, I didn't take the card bus ID from lspci but from 'cat /proc/pci. Besides the ID is good because the computer does send signals to the moniter through the card at that busID because I do get really distorted crosshatched craziness for a picture. Perhaps I

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 23:17, William Crowshaw wrote: 4) the ATI card I believe is a NexusGA, because it matches specs on the ATI website. But the chip on it says ATI Rage 128 3D AGP. Where exactly does it say that? All the other info you provide indicates that it's a Mach64 chip in

Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?

2003-08-11 Thread Thomas Otto
I can only give you some hints nontheless: Try to autogenerate a new XF86Config-4 via xf86config (this worked perfecty fine for me, ATI Radeon on an ibook) 4) the ATI card I believe is a NexusGA, because it matches specs on the ATI website. But the chip on it says ATI Rage 128 3D