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Re: Rage IIC AGP Video
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Dragoo)
Wed Nov 25 12:07:28 1998
From: BDragoo@thomasaquinas.edu (Brian Dragoo)
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:02:51 -0800
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I use the ATI Rage IIc also - It works fine with the ChipId and ChipRev
options alone. Didn't have to enable "noaccel".
BD
>GlennC,
> I have a video card with the ATI Rage IIc chipset on it. In addition
>to the ChipId and ChipRev options that I had to add to my XF86Config I
>also had to add the following line in the display section of that file
>to get XFree to work with my card.
>
>Option "noaccel"
>
>If you would like to see my XF86Config file send me an email and I will
>reply to you with it attached. If disabling acceleration works for you
>it won't be as fast as if the acceleration was enabled but at least it
>will work. For whatever reason, I had to disable acceleration on my
>machine to get XFree to work with my ATI video card. Oh, by the way
>here are my specs in case you're wondering.
>
>AMD-K6-2/300, Epox motherboard w/ 100MHz bus speed, 64M ram,
>Expertcolor 4M AGP video w/ ATI RageIIc chipset, CTX1562GM monitor
>
>Good luck,
>Brandon Kolbe
>glennc wrote:
>>
>> Hello and still Help,
>> I've found that apparently the ATI Rage IIc AGP Video card is as of
>> now unsupported. Thanks for the help in directing me to SUSE. I have
>> removed XFree86-Mach64 and replaced it with the SVGA version. Choosing
>> unlisted card/ custom monitor/ SVGA @ 1024 X 768, the Xwindows comes up
>> clearly. It seems jittery during the xxx's screen, but o.k. with the
>> fvwm screen. Things like xpats just blink when picked though. Is there
>> DANGER to my monitor or card with this setup????? 4 days until I can't
>> get a refund. Thanks again in advance.
>>
>> GlennC
>>
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