On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 11:07:34 -0700 "John Clark" <j1clark@ucsd.edu> wrote: > > Am Donnerstag den, 25. April 2002, um 22:44, schrieb Peter Leftwich: > > > Okay, you'll be quite proud of me - I took 13 minutes and in a swirl of > > mixed pleasure (relief) and pain and despair, learned that my video > > adapter > > (supposedly Rage 128 based; it's an ATI All-in-Wonder 16mb AGP card) is > > -not- supported by the ati driver, even though the running of `XFree86 > > -configure` happily picks this driver out every time and packages it > > with a > > pink ribbon! >:-( > > Yes, well, basically I would go to: > > http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status.html > > And check for devices, then do a yahoo search (or your favorite engine) > for some store/e-store that had such. > > Alternatively you can look at: > > http://www.computerhope.com/help/vati.htm > > for a discription of what is an ATI card... > > Since I don't have ATI cards in general, although I believe my Mac G3 > has some > version of such, I don't know whether this page is really useful, but it > looked > like it could help you identify your card, or other cards which may have > support. In my PC machines I have some old Trident cards, and the support > for them has been there for a long time. > > In my case of getting X up on my Compaq Presario laptop, under NetBSD > 1.5.2, > earlier versions of Xserver crashed, or put the screen into wyrd melt > mode. > I now have a version 4.2.0 up, but it was not easy... > > I have an ATI A.I.W. 32meg AGP and use the r128 driver. Perhaps that will work for you.
