RE: [newbie] Rage 128 and Mandrake 8
Hello Dennis, Eric and the list, What color depth are you running that card at. I would try it at very low settings and gradually bring it up. I can not run the ATI card I have at better than 65k for color at the 1024x768 resolution. Might help? I tested a few things now and I think I found the source of the problem. I was able to run 640x480 in any color resolution, but no higher than that. I THINK this is due to the fact that I have a Rage Fury AGP with a TV OUT and somehow the driver for Linux activated that TV OUT. Obviously, you can't go higher than 640x480 for normal TV (works under Windows with a higher resolution, but the win driver emulates a larger screen there I guess). So, are there any tools for setting the correct mode of the Rage? Or isn't this the problem at all ? Thanks for you help!! phil
[newbie] Rage 128 and Mandrake 8
Hello, I read all the stuff about the Rage problems on Mandrake, especially the how-to @ http://www4.ncsu.edu/~distclai/rage128-howto.html and the info on http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hbits.html#Rage. I still don't get my Rage Fury AGP 32mb to work with X. If I switch to 640x480 it shows a functional, but very weird looking X (doublefeature), otherwise the screen goes blank, my monitor shuts down and the system locks up. Could someone provide me a link to some more information on this ? I had Suse 7.0 installed previously and it just worked fine. I'd rather use Mandrake, though ... Suse has something to say about this on http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/behling_rage128_suse72.html, I didn't do that on Suse 7.0 but maybe it will help figure out what the problem is, I'm too much of a newbie to get that working on Mandrake :( I'm working on an Athlon System with an Asus mainboard. Thanks a lot! Phil
Re: [newbie] Rage 128 and Mandrake 8
That is funny. My ATI Rage Fury 128 has been working ever since Mandrake 7.1 came out. It uses the generic ATI Rage FURY driver. Oddly enough I also have another machine that has a ATI All IN Wonder which uses the same driver and I haven't had any problems. I am using the AGP verisons in both cases. Eric Ekong Mandrake User * Philip Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010701 13:19]: Hello, I read all the stuff about the Rage problems on Mandrake, especially the how-to @ http://www4.ncsu.edu/~distclai/rage128-howto.html and the info on http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hbits.html#Rage. I still don't get my Rage Fury AGP 32mb to work with X. If I switch to 640x480 it shows a functional, but very weird looking X (doublefeature), otherwise the screen goes blank, my monitor shuts down and the system locks up. Could someone provide me a link to some more information on this ? I had Suse 7.0 installed previously and it just worked fine. I'd rather use Mandrake, though ... Suse has something to say about this on http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/behling_rage128_suse72.html, I didn't do that on Suse 7.0 but maybe it will help figure out what the problem is, I'm too much of a newbie to get that working on Mandrake :( I'm working on an Athlon System with an Asus mainboard. Thanks a lot! Phil -- Uptime: 1:46AM up 12:07, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00