Very Computer

Regards,
John

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which will also work in the first case.
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A card with that chipset, an ATI Video Xpression w/2M EDO DRAM, works
flawlessly since ~2 years in one linux box, later in another, as well
as a different one w/Mach64 CT chipset, both with the Mach64 X Server
(exactly same XF86config, BTW). I guess they should work w/standard
SVGA server, too, but of course I prefer the more appropriate driver.
I don't remember exactly now, but I had success with XF86 versions 3.2
and 3.3.1. In fact, I couldn't have imagined someone posting a question
about problems with that chipset at all...

Juergen

Quote:>If you have a CRT get the 3.9.15-snapshot ox XFree86-4.0. If you have
>LCD follow

>   ftp://plato.la.asu.edu/pub/FB_VESA.txt

>which will also work in the first case.

Regards,
John

I have used many different ATI cards, mostly All-in-Wonder and many
different flavor of Linux. Here's what works fo me.

Use xf86config to set it up. All the other programs have (xf86setup,
etc) have not worked well for me. Answer the questions, don't autoprobe
and don't select a clock chip or ramdac.

The XF86Config file created should work. Older cards may require that
"ChipID 0x4755" and "ChipRev 0x01" be hand edited into the XF86Config
file. I thing there is info on this on the xfree.org web page.

The biggest problem with the ATI cards has to do with the video out
signal. When a cable is connected to a TV/VCR the card firmware detects
the presence of this connection and turns on the video out signal so you
can see the video on a TV during bootup. This screws X up resulting in
vertical stripes, multiple images and other artifacts.

Two solutions are possible. Disconnect the cable before you boot the
system or boot to DOS, install the ATI DOS drivers, put "path\install
tvoff" entry in your autoexec.bat file and then start Linux using
loadlin. This is also a good way to get other plug-n-play cards setup
before starting Linux.

Hope this helps.

Dave Myhr

ChipID option isn't documented in XF86Config man page, and didn't find
it at xfree.org. I've heard of it once before. Can you say more about
it??

Quote:> Two solutions are possible. Disconnect the cable before you boot the
> system or boot to DOS, install the ATI DOS drivers, put "path\install
> tvoff" entry in your autoexec.bat file and then start Linux using
> loadlin. This is also a good way to get other plug-n-play cards setup
> before starting Linux.

Thanks,
John