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by **TomZ** » Tue, 24 Sep 1996 04:00:00

Please Help me if you can!
I just bought the same Video card and can't seem to get it to work with
LINUX; I know it is something very simple. X comes up scrambled after the
slackware '96 xf86config utility is utilized. I did not do any extra
editing of the XF86config file.

WHAT WAS YOUR SECRET!!!!!

any help would be much apreciated.
TOM.

by **Keenan A. Forbe** » Wed, 25 Sep 1996 04:00:00

My roommate is looking to purchase the same card.
Unfortunately, the RAMDAC on the card in not supported by 3.1.2G;
however, I believe it is supported by the current beta release.
Please drop me a note if you do get it working with the beta, since he's
planning on buying the card shortly....

--Keenan

> Please Help me if you can!
> I just bought the same Video card and can't seem to get it to work with
> LINUX; I know it is something very simple. X comes up scrambled after the
> slackware '96 xf86config utility is utilized. I did not do any extra
> editing of the XF86config file.

by **Lance Kalz** » Wed, 25 Sep 1996 04:00:00

: Please Help me if you can!
: I just bought the same Video card and can't seem to get it to work with
: LINUX; I know it is something very simple. X comes up scrambled after the
: slackware '96 xf86config utility is utilized. I did not do any extra
: editing of the XF86config file.

Mmmm.... You _did_ go through the generated XF86 config file and edit out
the monitor entries you won't use, right?

If that doesn't do it, you might try posting a copy of the output from the
Mach64 INSTALL utility's "System Information" option. Mainly, the data on
the RAMDAC and ASIC used on your board.

by **orm..** » Thu, 26 Sep 1996 04:00:00

>My roommate is looking to purchase the same card.
>Unfortunately, the RAMDAC on the card in not supported by 3.1.2G;
>however, I believe it is supported by the current beta release.
>Please drop me a note if you do get it working with the beta, since he's
>planning on buying the card shortly....

> --Keenan

>> Please Help me if you can!
>> I just bought the same Video card and can't seem to get it to work with
>> LINUX; I know it is something very simple. X comes up scrambled after the
>> slackware '96 xf86config utility is utilized. I did not do any extra
>> editing of the XF86config file.

It's working fine here. I had to add the Option "no_block_write" line in the
config although the release notes for 3.1.2G said it was no longer needed.
If that doesn't work for you, e-mail me and I'll send you my config file.

--------------------------------------------

GammaTech, Inc. Product Development

by **Metod Kozel** » Sat, 28 Sep 1996 04:00:00

Hello,

> My roommate is looking to purchase the same card.
> Unfortunately, the RAMDAC on the card in not supported by 3.1.2G;
> however, I believe it is supported by the current beta release.
> Please drop me a note if you do get it working with the beta, since he's
> planning on buying the card shortly....

> --Keenan

> > Please Help me if you can!
> > I just bought the same Video card and can't seem to get it to work with
> > LINUX; I know it is something very simple. X comes up scrambled after the
> > slackware '96 xf86config utility is utilized. I did not do any extra
> > editing of the XF86config file.

I've got an ATI Graphics Pro Turbo 4 meg PCI. I've first got it work
with Xfree 3.1.2E and now I'm using 3.1.2F. I've had some problems:
pixmaps held in cache (fonts most notably) got distorted, but this
problem went away. I still have to use the "no_block_write" option,
which somehow reduces preformance. My card comes with the ATI68880
RAMDAC. It is supposed to be limited to 1280x1024 resolution but I've
overrided the BIOS limits and I have no problem running it with maximum
resolution of 1350x1020 pixels (16 bit mode).

Hope this helps,

--
Metod Kozelj

WWW: http://www.rzs-hm.si/people/Metod.Kozelj/

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