Frank Carreiro wrote:
> I had problems with the Rage Fury 32 Meg card. After a week of trying
> this driver and that driver I pretty much gave up and bought a real
> video card. (3DFX Voodoo 3).
Good choice! I know several ppl who have those things (the Rage Fury
cards), and their boxes lock up or reboot an aweful lot. Pete applied
several (!!) heat sinks and fans to his and the system magically began
running smoother. Imagine that :)
> Sure the Rage looked really great in 95/NT but in Linux it never worked.
>
> I understand there are drivers for SUSE that support this card. Tried
> them also with RedHat. No soap guys. It just didn't work.
>From your other letter, it sounds like you probably didn't have
/etc/X11/X symlinked to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Rage (or whatever). I don't
like the cards myself, but I've seen several installed and working under
Red Hat 6.0 and 6.1.
Attempting to run those cards with even the 16 color server failed for
me. AFAICT, the card is 128 bit, and it expects to be treated like it,
dammit!!
> Oh well... Maybe ATI will get a grip and start supporting us like
> everybody else. Otherwise they are going to be seeing more and more
> returns as time goes on ;D
They have :) They've released specifications to the 2d and 3d engines
on their chipset, and they've commisioned Precision Insight to develope
support for their cards (for XFree86 4, I believe).
MSG
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