Dave Lindsay wrote: > > On my Athlon 500@927, Mandrake 7 just flies along, but it's a gaming > system so it will likely be in Windows most of the time. I am setting up > my old P100 as a internet sharing gateway for the other computers, but > it has an ancient 2 meg ATI Mach64 GX video card, and the drivers for it > just don't want to work. I can't get anything above 8 Bit Colour at > 640x480, even thought it can do 16bit at 1024x768.. Anyone else have > this problem? > > Thanks, > Dave The XFree86 drivers for older ATI are a bit too aggressive. You can try various options to reduce performance, such as "noaccel" A listing of those which will work on your card will be found at www.xfree.org. In addition, take the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and with an editor remove all the modelines you do not need, leaving in only the 1024x768 that will fit your monitor's sync. Set DefaultColorDepth at 16 and then add the slowdowns one at a time, running startx after each to test. Chances are high that you will find a viable combination. Civileme Just curious, why do you want a monitor on a sharing gateway? I assume you plan to make it a masquerading gateway and possibly your mailserver using one of the dynamic dns services and rarely use it as a workstation. Anyway, with Webmin, you can control it with a GUI interface from a browser on any of your other machines. You can find a mandrake rpm for webmin at your favorite cooker mirror.
