andy peerand wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:13:44 -0700, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
Nothing fancy, an ATI Expert 2000 (Rage 128 w/32MB Ram).
i have one of those, works great with os/2, but not suse 7.1.
the older versions of the chipset is supported, but not this version. spent 2 days till i figured that out. the xfree people are aware of the problem.
btw, its supposed to use sgva server
Well that's just great. How do I install the svga server if I can't even get Sax/Sax2 to run???????
With sax you can use sax -s XF86_SVGA With sax2 I'm not sure. --lowres might help, or -m SVGA X 4.x doesn't use different servers, it uses modules instead. Regards Anders On Monday 18 June 2001 02:32, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
andy peerand wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:13:44 -0700, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
Nothing fancy, an ATI Expert 2000 (Rage 128 w/32MB Ram).
i have one of those, works great with os/2, but not suse 7.1.
the older versions of the chipset is supported, but not this version. spent 2 days till i figured that out. the xfree people are aware of the problem.
btw, its supposed to use sgva server
Well that's just great. How do I install the svga server if I can't even get Sax/Sax2 to run???????
-- Suche Nullen! Götzen-Dämmerung - oder wie man mit dem Pingvin philosophirt
<snip> Look at this: http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6 Not sure if updating to 4.1.0 is going to work fully as other had issues. Have they been fixed? It could worth a try (btw yast->Package management->Install Packages->FTP Enter it like this: ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86 I would seriously recommend getting 3ddiag, Sax2 and Xfree86-4.03 Somone got theirs to work: http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispreport.cgi?DISP?2014 Matt
The problems with 4.1.0, AFAIK were with Matrox and DRI. I'm running it with an nvidia card and it's working very well (2815 fps with gears at 1280x1024. I think that's acceptable). The link you give seems to say it works with Rage 128 as well. I know I'd have tried it Regards Anders On Monday 18 June 2001 02:48, StarTux wrote:
<snip>
Look at this:
http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6
Not sure if updating to 4.1.0 is going to work fully as other had issues. Have they been fixed?
It could worth a try (btw yast->Package management->Install Packages->FTP
Enter it like this:
ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86
I would seriously recommend getting 3ddiag, Sax2 and Xfree86-4.03
Somone got theirs to work:
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispreport.cgi?DISP?2014
Matt
Anders Johansson wrote:
The problems with 4.1.0, AFAIK were with Matrox and DRI. I'm running it with an nvidia card and it's working very well (2815 fps with gears at 1280x1024. I think that's acceptable). The link you give seems to say it works with Rage 128 as well. I know I'd have tried it
Regards Anders
On Monday 18 June 2001 02:48, StarTux wrote:
<snip>
Look at this:
http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6
Not sure if updating to 4.1.0 is going to work fully as other had issues. Have they been fixed?
It could worth a try (btw yast->Package management->Install Packages->FTP
Enter it like this:
ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86
I would seriously recommend getting 3ddiag, Sax2 and Xfree86-4.03
Somone got theirs to work:
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispreport.cgi?DISP?2014
Matt
Just so I don't leave everybody hanging on this issue, here's what I've done so far. I put my ATI Expert 98 8MB AGP card back in. I have two installations of 7.1 and one installation of Win Me on my box, so I can play with one of the 7.1 installations to try to get the Expert 2000 AGP card working. The only kicker is that everytime I want to test it I have to shut down and physically change out the card. But that only takes a few minutes. I also have downloaded all the files for XFree4.1.0 and Sax2 from the SuSE ftp site. I think I will try installing those on one of the 7.1 installations to see how it goes. Then test it with the Expert 2000 card. Anybody got any other suggestions before I screw things up? Jerry
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<snip>
Just so I don't leave everybody hanging on this issue, here's what I've done so far. I put my ATI Expert 98 8MB AGP card back in. I have two installations of 7.1 and one installation of Win Me on my box, so I can play with one of the 7.1 installations to try to get the Expert 2000 AGP card working. The only kicker is that everytime I want to test it I have to shut down and physically change out the card. But that only takes a few minutes. I also have downloaded all the files for XFree4.1.0 and Sax2 from the SuSE ftp site. I think I will try installing those on one of the 7.1 installations to see how it goes. Then test it with the Expert 2000 card. Anybody got any other suggestions before I screw things up?
Jerry
Just one suggestion if I may: "God Speed Jerry" :-) Matt
StarTux wrote:
<snip>
Just so I don't leave everybody hanging on this issue, here's what I've done so far. I put my ATI Expert 98 8MB AGP card back in. I have two installations of 7.1 and one installation of Win Me on my box, so I can play with one of the 7.1 installations to try to get the Expert 2000 AGP card working. The only kicker is that everytime I want to test it I have to shut down and physically change out the card. But that only takes a few minutes. I also have downloaded all the files for XFree4.1.0 and Sax2 from the SuSE ftp site. I think I will try installing those on one of the 7.1 installations to see how it goes. Then test it with the Expert 2000 card. Anybody got any other suggestions before I screw things up?
Jerry
Just one suggestion if I may:
"God Speed Jerry"
:-)
Matt
Thanks StarTux. That's just what I need, God's help. Please pray for me and my machine. BTW, does anybody else keep getting double messages from this list, or is it just me? Jerry
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 04:35, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
BTW, does anybody else keep getting double messages from this list, or is it just me?
Jerry
Yeah, last night (I think that was monday...:o) I was deleting the same messages a couple of times, I thought it was me going crazy so now I'm reliefed seeing this message...:-) Cheers, ei -- @~~~ EagleIce ~~~~ eagleice@telia.com ~~~@ @~~~~ Running SuSE Linux 7.1 at home ~~~~@ @~~~~ Caldera OL eDesktop 2.4 at work ~~~@
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On June 18, 2001 11:15 pm, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
Just so I don't leave everybody hanging on this issue, here's what I've done so far. I put my ATI Expert 98 8MB AGP card back in. I have two installations of 7.1 and one installation of Win Me on my box, so I can play with one of the 7.1 installations to try to get the Expert 2000 AGP card working. The only kicker is that everytime I want to test it I have to shut down and physically change out the card. But that only takes a few minutes. I also have downloaded all the files for XFree4.1.0 and Sax2 from the SuSE ftp site. I think I will try installing those on one of the 7.1 installations to see how it goes. Then test it with the Expert 2000 card. Anybody got any other suggestions before I screw things up?
I'm going to mention what I had to do to get my MGA G450 working in case you run into trouble. I couldn't compile the kernel modules under Linux-2.4.4-SuSE. You need to be able to do this in order to get 3d working properly. I downloaded Linux-2.4.5, which wouldn't compile so I patched it with 2.4.6-pre1. That compiled. I followed the instructions in SuSE's README for X 4.1.0 to install the modules. The improvement is substantial. I was playing Soldier of Fortune with all of the details on maximum on my K6-2/400 where I had to severely turn them down under X 4.0.3 with the Matrox beta 1.3.0 driver. Generally, it was as smooth as could be. It slowed down every minute, but that's probably due to the 1-minute cron job I'm running :-)* Unfortunately, OSS wouldn't work with the shiny new kernel I compiled so I installed the open-source Aureal driver. I haven't tried to play a game yet with it (it was late last night) but last time I installed it SDL games wouldn't work properly. Maybe the new kernel is happier... I'll find out later. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7L0uv+FOexA3koIgRAqwiAKCQFoLY4aPzUhKBU81VEdufgANslQCgmHaL QYAFVNazDTMioPgPiwxXIro= =t+Yv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
StarTux wrote:
<snip>
Look at this:
http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6
Not sure if updating to 4.1.0 is going to work fully as other had issues. Have they been fixed?
It could worth a try (btw yast->Package management->Install Packages->FTP
Enter it like this:
ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86
I would seriously recommend getting 3ddiag, Sax2 and Xfree86-4.03
Somone got theirs to work:
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispreport.cgi?DISP?2014
Matt
Thanks - that gives me hope for my card. I hate to switch, I really like ATI.
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