Re: XFree86-4.0.1 & ati


Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0.1 & ati
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2000 - 12:20:05 MST


On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:

> >People on older machines (non-Rage 128) should try too, and I'd be
> >interested in hearing any success/failure stories from you folks.
>
> Still cannot get it to work on a 6500 with an ATI Rage Pro card and
> the on-board Rage II. I removed all trace of X (although I'm not too
> sure how well I really did this) and installed the 401 rpms again. In
> particular, I made sure of the following:

[snip]
 
> I have used Xautoconfig-0.12 to create both a single-monitor
> XF86Config-4 and then tweaked it by hand for 2 cards/monitors until
> all errors were removed. I double-checked the PCI device info and
> made sure it was reflected correctly in the config file.

[snip]

Multihead won't work right now...

How does single-head (with the untweaked Xautoconfig XF86Config-4) look?

-Hollis



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