RE: [newbie] Rage 128 and Mandrake 8

[Philip Mayer]

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

Re: [newbie] Rage 128 and Mandrake 8

[Eric Ekong]

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
 
 

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