Michael Hipp babbled on about:
> I just spent a very long frustrating week working for many hours every day
> to get an ATI XPERT 128 card to work under Linux. Xfree says it works. The
> COL list says it works. But I tried 2+ different distros and 3 different
> machines and more XF86Config files than I care to remember and it would not
> function under X even at 640x480/60Hz. All the helpful ideas from the COL
> list were to no avail. I put it in a Win2k box and it is configured 1st
> time correctly (and no reboot required). I put it in a Win98 box and it at
> least comes up and works at VGA resolution. {Many other examples could be
> cited - this is just the one I'm infuriated about at this moment.}that's strange. just list the ChipID statement in your XF86Config file. I had this working before I switched machines. 4.2.0 (which just came out) supports this out of the box as well. This particular issue is no different on windows vs. linux. it's a driver issue. the chipset on recent xpert cards are different than the previous. windows will say "i dont know what the video card is, use vga" where linux says "i dont' know what the video card is. tell me." no real difference -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://linux.nf Alliance, n.: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
