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Re: ATI & X

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Sun Nov 1 12:25:06 1998

Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 04:34:11 -0600 (CST)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
To: Brandon Kolbe <chezteth@execpc.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <363BB394.521632FE@execpc.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com

On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Brandon Kolbe wrote:

>I recently purchased a video card with an ATI Rage IIc chipset.  I had a
>lot of problems getting it running but I eventually succeeded.  Add the
>following lines to the device section of your XF86Config file:
>
>	ChipId  0x4755
>	ChipRev 0x01
>

where did you get these numbers from?  I run an ATI Xpert 98 with no
problems except some warning that the chip revision number doesn't match,
and a value of 'q' is less than a certain value.  (can't recreate the
exact error message since this only occurs in 5.1/xfree86 - this PC has
5.0/MetroX).


- dave

--

   |     oOOooO           /  
 --|    oOobodoO        /   dsb3@earthlink.net
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   |       II       /     Kernel Panic: /dev/brain is on fire.
   |       II     /      MD5: 13aa1b8724ce1885cd9e7cad9b2eb9ba 


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