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I'd like to ask what the story is on the ATI Mach 64 video boards.  I just
bought Red Hat Linux 3.0.3, and I'm poised to buy a machine to run it.  Mach
64 boards are supposedly supported under Red Hat 3.0.3, which is based on
linux kernal 1.2.13.  I've read the HOWTO's posted at sunsite, and I've
seen that all ATI Mach 64 boards are supported at 8bpp and that only some
RAMDACS are supported at higher dot clocks and deeper depths.  I picked up a
list of those RAMDAC's from the Mach64 web page at www.XFree86.org so
that I should be able to get an appropriate board.  Yet, I see a number of
posts to this group by people who can not get their ATI Mach64 boards to work
and who are told that they need to upgrade to 3.1.2D of XFree86.  What's up?
Why are these people having problems?  Should I avoid an ATI Mach64 board?
Will I actually be able to find a board with a RAMDAC listed on the
Mach64 page at the Xfree86 website?

Thanks,

Dick

I really thing one of the major reasons why many ppl don't like Linux is that
they like Windows and are unable to get XWindows running. You have to be a
hardware tech to know all the clocks/chips/whatever info to set it up.
That's what ppl like in MS-Windows...the plug and play thing.

I would appreciate any help/input on the mach64 cards...I'd really like to have
X running (well, I have the VGA version running).

gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include -o <Program> <Object files to bind> \
  -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXm -lXt -lX11

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In /etc/ld.so.conf should be a path to all the libs where you
store libraries, /usr/X11R6/lib should be in there. Secondly, is
there a symlink /usr/include/X11 to /usr/X11R6/include? That should
solve the include problem. Include files can then be called by
#include <X11/some_X_includefile>

Good luck.

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Quote:>In /etc/ld.so.conf should be a path to all the libs where you
>store libraries, /usr/X11R6/lib should be in there. Secondly, is
>there a symlink /usr/include/X11 to /usr/X11R6/include? That should
>solve the include problem. Include files can then be called by
>#include <X11/some_X_includefile>

>Good luck.

gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include -o <Program> <Object files to bind> \
  -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXm -lXt -lX11

However, now I am facing another one.  Readers please pardon my ignorance
and any assistance would be deeply appreciated.  After I got my gcc linker
to build up my executable, upon execution the system return me this message:

  can't resolve symbol 'XShapeQueryExtension'

I have not check what you propose above, I will do so when I get home and
see if it could address this new problem.  In the beginning I suspect there
was an error in my code, but I have since confirm that it is a system error
message: I typed in a short Motif program from a reference book, compiled it
sucessfully and upon execution, the same message appeared.

As I said before, any comments/assistance would be most appreciated.

Regards,           __    ____  __  __  "Discipline is remembering what
P e n g  H e n g, (  )  (_  _)(  \/  )    you want       - D Campbell"
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