Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Tue, 25 May 1999 23:26:20 -0600 (MDT)
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Scott R. Every wrote:
> Question for you...
> I have a Rage II card which sort of works. it will boot, but will die
> shortly after starting X. lots of artifacts
>
> I also tred a Rage pro card(2 diffrent models) and they crash on startup
> everytime.
That's VERY strange.
Did you role your own kernel?
If so did you compile the ATY framebuffer driver in?
>
> Is there ANY RAGE support in these kernels even for older cards?
Ya... there's support for basically everything but the 128. The Rage Pro
even has a fair amount of acceleration support.
> I am using 2.2.7 with YDL on an ANS 700
We're getting an ANS 700 very soon .. I hope to be able to test on this
system more so we make sure future versions work on these machines.
> s
>
> --On Tue, May 25, 1999 11:14 PM -0600 Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terraplex.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The only way that Xconfigurator will set you up for Xpmac use is if
> > /dev/fb0, etc. doesn't exist.. (so you dont have any framebuffer devices)
> >
> > We feel that most people will be using FBDev since it's far better for
> > most systems. The Blue and Whites do need work and we're assisting
> > development efforts to get Rage 128 support into the kernel..
>
>
>
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>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
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