Subject: Re: ATI Rage 128 Pro acceleration
From: cdowns (cdowns@skillsoft.com)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 09:50:54 MDT
Jolly Roger wrote:
> on 10/18/00 10:21 AM, cdowns wrote:
>
> > Joshua Gitlin wrote:
> >
> >> I have an ATI Rage Pro, and I have to pass novideo to the kernel, or
> >> else the kernel switches to a resolution I can't handle. Why is
> >> that???
> >>
> >> -Josh
> >>
> >>> Has anyone gotten an ATI Rage 128 Pro (G4 AGP) card to accelerate correctly
> >>> in YDL 1.2? I have not been able to find help on this. Does CS 1.2.1 offer
> >>> better Rage 128 Pro AGP support? If so, I'll just upgrade.
> >
> > also the 2.2.17 kernel has full ati rage 128 support. as far as agp i think
> > you will need a patch still.
>
> By "full ATI Rage 128 Pro support" do you mean that the card is correctly
> accelerated, and you do not have to use the "novideo" kernel argument?
i personally run nvidia TNT2 32 meg pci, but we setup the ati rage 128 pci on may
brothers box the other day and i compiled 2.2.17 kernel amd compiled in frame
buffer and it all works nice and smooth. i think if you can load the 2.2.17 kernel
you should be golden.
good luck, chris
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