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

[Adrian Finn]

thanks norberto

Was your card the Ati Rage Orion or the stock 6500 card?

What card did you change to?


On 2 Dec 2003, at 15:45, Norberto Quintanar wrote:

> 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
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> yellowdog-general mailing list
>> yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>>
> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general
>
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now
> http://companion.yahoo.com/
> _______________________________________________
> yellowdog-general mailing list
> yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general