Thanks, I was wondering what had happened to those drivers... Now I realise that they are still there just hidden. Lionel
--- "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Lionel Lecoq wrote: > > >Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 05:23:05 -0800 (PST) > >From: Lionel Lecoq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Subject: Re: ATI All-In-Wonder 128 (16 Mb) AGP again > > > >have you tried Driver "ati" > >see http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6 > > Rage 128 hardware uses the "r128" driver. The "ati" driver is > merely a wrapper around all 3 of the ATI drivers for individual > chip families, and is not itself a driver. > > The 3 ATI drivers are: > > atimisc - Mach64 and older hardware > r128 - All Rage 128 based chipsets > radeon - All Radeon based chipsets including FireGL 7x00/8x00 > > Selecting the "ati" driver merely autodetects the card, then > loads one of the 3 drivers listed above. In this case, the "ati" > driver will detect a Rage 128 chip, and then load the "r128" > driver - which is identical to just specifiying the "r128" driver > in the first place. > > There seems to be a lot of misconception that ATI users can just > try one of the other ATI drivers present if the official one for > their chipset doesn't work properly for them. There is no > benefit whatsoever to doing so however, and only one of the 3 > drivers will work with a given ATI chip. > > Hope this clarifies things a bit. > > TTYL > > > -- > Mike A. Harris > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
