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by **Enric** » Mon, 05 Jul 1999 04:00:00

Hi everybody

I want to buy an ATI All-in-wonder 128.
Someone has this Videocard (or another one with ATI Rage 128bit chipset like
Rage fury) together with Linux? About Xfree?
I read the XFree Faq and I saw there no ATI RAGE 128 support...
Afterall can I use just simple VGA (640*480) (or better) even if XFREE
doesn't recognize the ATI Rage 128 chipset???

Sorry for my school english
Thanks a lot

P.S.
Please answer in Newsgroup

by **christiano presutt** » Tue, 06 Jul 1999 04:00:00

ciao enrico,
speakinig in english for respect to other readers, actually basic english.

your card is not yet supported by xfreee86, so you need to use
framebuffering to use your card.
this mean your processor will make calculations instead of the card
processor: slower but you can run a reasonable resolution and colordepth.

for setting up your system, follow instruction at this address:

http://www.0wned.org/~cain/ragefury.htm

Check periodically:

http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3.1/README3.html

or

http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/

to look for a new release of xfree86.

christo.

Quote:> Hi everybody

> I want to buy an ATI All-in-wonder 128.
> Someone has this Videocard (or another one with ATI Rage 128bit chipset
like
> Rage fury) together with Linux? About Xfree?
> I read the XFree Faq and I saw there no ATI RAGE 128 support...
> Afterall can I use just simple VGA (640*480) (or better) even if XFREE
> doesn't recognize the ATI Rage 128 chipset???

> Sorry for my school english
> Thanks a lot

> P.S.
> Please answer in Newsgroup

by **Thorsten Hei** » Tue, 06 Jul 1999 04:00:00

Quote:> I want to buy an ATI All-in-wonder 128.
> Someone has this Videocard (or another one with ATI Rage 128bit chipset
like
> Rage fury) together with Linux? About Xfree?
> I read the XFree Faq and I saw there no ATI RAGE 128 support...
> Afterall can I use just simple VGA (640*480) (or better) even if XFREE
> doesn't recognize the ATI Rage 128 chipset???

If you're using an Rage128 chip you should stop gpm; otherwise your system
can hang if you switch to another virtual console or try to start X...
(don't know why Linux hangs but that trick works).

The actual version of XFree86 doesn't support that chip. You have to use a
commercial X server like Accelerated-X from XiGraphics (www.xig.com).
Otherwise you have to use the standard VGA resolution 640x480/16 colors
w/60 Hz....
I've read some postings about people running the XFree86-Mach64 server
together with a Rage128 chipset but I don't know what they have done to
get this combination running...

Thorsten

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