Blue & White G3 Rage 128

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I had the same problem, but with Rage 128 on a 9600. My first install
defaulted to the "fbdev" driver, which looked fine but was not
accelerated.

If I just switched to r128, X11 would crash. However, when I did
Xautoconfig, it gave a version of "XF86Config" that used r128, but
wouldn't go higher than 1024x768. Plus, it would see the card as
"unknown"

>From there, I was able to use the display control panel to "identify"
the video card. I duplicated the "special options" that were generated
by Xautoconfig -- just in case.

It works the same, but with all items correctly identified -- however,
it still won't offer me the option of going higher than 1024x768. 

Instead of fighting it (because I really don't know how) I just put a
smaller monitor on it -- I'm only just learning this, after all.

If anyone else has any experiences here, I'd like to know -- fyi, YDL
2.3 could give me 1280x1024 without a hiccup.

Also, none of my screen savers seem to work. Not a big deal, really, but
I wonder if that is also related to the display driver issue?

thanks everybody,
Ted


On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 20:03, Ed Rivenbark wrote:
>   Ok, I tried your config file and still nothing.  I get a black screen
> with an X cursor then X crashes with a FBIOPAN_DISPLAY invalid argument.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On Behalf
> Of Aaron Hsu
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 3:18 PM
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> Subject: Re: Blue & White G3 Rage 128
> 
> I used to have problems getting it to work but I fixed it.
> 
> I can post my xconfig if you would like. I used the default settings,
> and they worked however, it was just when I changed the driver from
> fbdev to r128 that I had a problem once, but I fixed it by changing some
> settings, and restarting x. I am not sure exactly what I did. But as it
> stands now I am running driver r128 with glx and dri enabled.
> 
> On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 15:49, Ed Rivenbark wrote:
> > Anyone else having problems getting X to run on the Rage 128?  All I
> > get is a black screen with the X cursor for a few seconds then X
> > crashes. I can post my XF86Config and the log file if needed.  Oh, and
> > it is a fresh install of 3.0 with Xfree86 4.3.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Ed
> > 
> > 
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