ATI Rage support

Wed Jun 4 22:52:01 2003

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Hi there,

Robert did a lot of the legwork for B&W G3s in the day.  There were a 
lot of issues with the kernel back then, but they have all been 
resolved as a B&W is old news now.  I just this week put 3.0 on two B&W 
G3s without a hitch (well, not really, but as far as the r128 goes, all 
was well).  I didn't have to pass any kernel args to get it to work, 
but the default device in
/etc/X11/XF86Config was "FBdev" not "r128".

Here is my working XF86Config for 24-bit, 1280x1024.  Notice that I 
have a Studio Display, so you may have to change that bit --- use 
whatever the Xautoconfig gave you in your own XF86Config.

Cheers,

Mike
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# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86

Section "ServerLayout"

	#
	Identifier     "Anaconda Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# The location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "fbdevhw"
	#Load  "dri"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

#	Option	"AutoRepeat"	"500 5"
# when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the
# following line
#	Option	"Protocol"	"Xqueue"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#	Option	"Xleds"		"1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#	Option	"XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
# or:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
#	Option	"XkbVariant"	"nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:swapcaps"
	#Option	"XkbOptions"	""
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
	Option	    "XkbRules" "xfree86"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "macintosh"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
	#Option	"XkbVariant"	""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Apple Computer"
	ModelName    "Studio 17"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 85.0
	VertRefresh  48.0 - 160.0
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"

	# no known options
        #BusID
	Identifier  "ATI Rage 128"
	Driver      "r128"
	VendorName  "ATI Rage 128"
	BoardName   "ATI Rage 128"
	Option	    "HWcursor" ""
	Option	    "UseFBDev" ""
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "ATI Rage 128"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024" "800x600"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode         0666
EndSection

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On Wednesday, Jun 4, 2003, at 18:12 US/Pacific, Ed Leafe wrote:

> 	OK, now that I've gotten YDL 3 installed on my B&W G3, I can't get 
> the video to display at anything other than 640x480. Did some 
> Googling, and see that the problem is known, and that it stems from 
> the driver for the ATI Rage 128 card not being compiled into the 
> kernel. These messages were referencing YDL 2.1.x; am I safe in 
> assuming that this is still a problem in 3.0?
>
> 	The messages I saw also mentioned a kernel made available by Robert 
> Shaw that solved this and other B&W G3 problems, yet all the links to 
> his pages are dead. Anyone know about this, and where a current 
> version might be available?
>
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