Beige G3 with Ati Rage Orion X server driver problems..

[Norberto Quintanar]

I had a similiar problem on my 6500/250 and was able to get my ATI
card to work using Xautoconfig at the command line.  It didn't really
improve anything over the stock fbdev driver.  So I changed video
cards.
--- Adrian Finn <ady@spamcop.net> wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I've successfully installed YDL 3.0 on my G3 233 minitower with
> upgraded G3
> processor.
> 
> X works with the fbdev driver but it's really slow.
> 
> I've tried to use the r128 driver in the XF86Config file but X
> won't start
> and complains of finding no appropriate hardware for the driver
> even though
> LSPCI reports the Ati Rage on the PCI bus at 0:0f.0
> I've tried using the BusID bit of XF86Config with the decimal
> version of the
> PCI address but this hasn't worked.
> 
> I'm using the standard kernel as installed in YDL 3.0 and have run
> yum for
> the latest updates. I have to use Boot X and to boot successfully I
> have to
> use check the "No Video Driver" box.
> 
> Is there anything else I can try? I'd really like to get X faster!
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance..
> 
> 
> adrian
> 
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