On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 04:58:11PM -0800, Mark Seven Smith wrote: | ATI Rage 128 video card
[removed all other peripherals too] | WHY I BELIEVE THE VIDEO CARD IS AT FAULT: | Basically, Red Hat Linux 6.1 also had this problem--I had | to get RH7.1 (with the newer XFree86 stuff on it) before I | could install. I am using RH7.1 right now. I agree with you, it sounds like you vid. card is bad. I've installed RH6.2 with no problems at all on a machine at work with a Rage 128 card. The only problem is that I didn't get X4 working (and I know X3 doesn't support it well), but it is mostly used for testing anyways so I didn't spend any more time on it. | It still seems *VERY ODD* that the ATI Rage 128 will not | work in the lowest of text video compatibility modes. I | Suppose this is why the stupid card was foisted on me in | the first place (I had gone to purchase a different card, | but was given this one instead, "at a discount", and they | assured me that it was "fully compatible with Linux"!) Now | I read at various places around the web, all the | difficulties folks have had with the ATI Rage 128 card. If you use the framebuffer stuff, configuring X is a piece of cake. For most cards you lose performance, but it works well and gives a nicer looking console too. | Also, the ATI Rage 128 card is not listed in the hardware | compatibility list on the Debian site. That list may only refer to potato (X3) or it may be outdated, I don't know.
