Message-Id: <200012240148.TAA40727455@smtppop1pub.verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:54:05 -0500
From: Ed Harrison
Subject: Re: [SLE] ati IT WORKS, BELIEVE ME.
** Reply to message from Alex Garcia on Sat, 23 Dec 2000
00:58:03 -0500
Alex,
I think that I responded to this once before.
I never said whether you have XFree 3.3.6 (SuSE 6.4), or if you upgraded to
4.0x.
This is for 3.3.6.
The ATI All-In-Wonder Pro 128 uses the Rage 128 chip, the same one that is in
my Xpert2000 (See www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/xpert2000_pro/index.html and
www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/aiw_128_pro/index.html).
The driver is therefore XFCom_Rage128. If running XFree86 <4.0, the driver is
contained in the xrage.rpm file at
ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/XFCom/xrage/xrage.rpm.
XFCom_Rage128 is placed in /usr/X11R6/bin/.
Rename /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA anything else. As root, mv
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA.backup.
Create a symbolic link to XFCom_Rage128: ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_Rage128
XF86_SVGA.
Logout.
Restart X server.
Log back in and the proper Xserver is up and running.
There is no need to throw rocks at SuSE or ATI. This card (at least the Rage
128 chip) works beautifully with linux.
With this driver it is fully supported to Millions of colors (24bpp or 32bpp)
up to 1600x1200 resolution, especially with 32 MB.
<p>Ed Harrison
SuSE 6.4, Kernel 2.2.17, IBM JDK 1.1.8 (20000713)
or Warp 4, FP12
or Windows98 (running in vmware 2.0.3 for fun)
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