On Nov 25, 06 20:06:32 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 18:46 +0100, Alain Barthélemy wrote:
Hi, I'm new to Linux. I just installed suse 10.1 on my old laptop, Armada M700 and found the display problem. It's like the top part of the screen is shown at the bottom. I tried to change the resolution, monitor and frequency around but couldn't get it to work. The VGA card is ATI 3D Rage P/M Moility AGP 2x.
Which driver are you using? Even though it says "Rage Mobility" it is actually a Mach64 (at least it was on my m700), which can be problematic in Linux. If I remember correctly I used the r128 driver. However,
Sad but true (about Mach64). The issue is that approximately noone
upstream is interested in these old cards anymore :-(
So yes, there could be some regression.
fbdev should work, if a graphical console is working.
CU
Matthias
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