new installation

[Duston, Hal]

A note of caution, X 4.0 is a beta, plus it will need to
be compiled.  I would pursue 3.3.x a little bit further.

>From the 3.3.6 Documentation for ATI.

1. Supported Hardware

ATI Rage 128 based cards 

2. Features

Full support (including hardware accelerated 2D drawing) for 
8, 15, 16, 24, and 32 bit per pixel depths. 
Hardware cursor support to reduce sprite flicker. 
Support for high resolution video modes up to 1800x1440 @ 70Hz. 
Support for doublescan video modes (e.g., 320x200 and 320x240). 
Support for gamma correction at all pixel depths. 
Fully programmable clock supported. 
Robust text mode restore for VT switching. 

4. Reported Working Video Cards

Rage Fury AGP 32MB 
XPERT 128 AGP 16MB 
XPERT 99 AGP 8MB 

5. Configuration
The driver auto-detects all device information necessary to 
initialize the card. The only lines you need in the "Device" 
section of your XF86Config file are: 
       Section "Device"
           Identifier "r128"
       EndSection
or let xf86config or XF86Setup do this for you. 
However, if you have problems with auto-detection, you can 
specify: 
VideoRam - in kilobytes 
MemBase - physical address of the linear framebuffer 
IOBase - physical address of the memory mapped IO registers 
ChipID - PCI DEVICE ID 

6. Driver Options

"hw_cursor" - request hardware cursor (default) 
"sw_cursor" - software cursor only 
"no_accel" - software rendering only 
"dac_8_bit" - use color weight 888 in 8 bpp mode (default) 
"dac_6_bit" - use color weight 666 in 8 bpp mode (VGA emulation) 

Hal Duston
hald at sound.net

Randy Rathbun (randy at middlewest.com) wrote
> you might try the 4.0 release of X. Get it at www.xfree86.org.

>On 3/24/00 at 1:30 PM WWryoung at aol.com wrote: 
>>I could use some help here! 
>> 
>>I just installed RED HAT 6.1 on my Gateway machine. It is on 
>>a seperate spindal. 
>> 
>>The system installed properly - however Linux complains about 
>>my video card and won't start XFree86 server.. Says it has 
>>problems accessing the memory on the card. 
>> 
>>The card is an 'ATI Rage 128 GL AGP (English)'. 
>> 
>>The question is: Has anyone used this card with linux? Any 
>>suggestions on getting X to work. 
>> 
>>Randy Young 
>>