On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Rich Winkel wrote:

> Hi, I just tried to get XF86 4.1 working with an ATI Rage 128 pro card.
> The web site says Rage 128 is supported.  Does this exclude the pro?
> The error message is:
> ...
> (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI unknown chipset (0x5446) rev 0, Mem @ 0xf8000000/26, 0xff9
> fc000/14, I/O @ 0xec00/8, BIOS @ 0x80000000/17
> ...
> Fatal server error:
>
> XFree86 has found a valid card configuration.
> Unfortunately the appropriate data has not been added to xf86PciInfo.h.
> Please forward 'scanpci -v' output to XFree86 support team.

This question pops up every now and then. I have a ATI Xpert2000Pro card
(based on Rage128Pro) that caused the same error message. The reason:
There are many different revisions of the Rage128Pro chipset in use. Some
newer ones of them have not yet been added to xf86PciInfo.h as of XFree86
4.1.

There is a solution to your problem, however. Without having to bother
about recompiling anything, you can basically modify your XF86Config file
to *force* the detection of your unknown revision of Rage128Pro as a
*known revision*. More information about how to do that can be found here:
http://two.ucdavis.edu/~holland/unix/xpert2000.html

One more note: Despite what the example on that page says, you can safely
set Option "UseCCEFor2D" to "false".

Greetings
Nils


Nils Holland
Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany
http://www.tisys.org * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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