RE: ATI Rage 128

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From: Johan Pretorius (JohanPretorius@flysaa.com)
Date: Thu 07 Oct 1999 - 12:10:38 IST


Andrew,

The exception is the S3 Trio 3D/2X card - this is the reply I got from 
a knowledgable guy:

> Do you have any idea whether the SuSe 6.2 release includes support for 
> the S3 Trio 3D/2X video card?  I have Redhat 6.0 installed, and the
included
> version of XFree86 it does not even list the card.  The best I get 
> is 640x480x16 ...

It does not. XFree86 3.3.4 doesn't support that card. I had the same
problem. "Solved" it by buying a RIVA128 card. Even if the next version
of XFree86 will support that chipset, it will most probably be an
alpha driver. Don't expect any Linux distribution to play well with
it any time soon. 

Sorry, but it is the naked truth.


What do you make of this?

Johan Pretorius
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