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Re: ATI 3D RAGE II+DVD and XWindows
Valentin Ossman <valentin@galileo.co.il> wrote:
> I have a graphic card ATI 3D RAGE II+DVD. - 4MB
> I am tring to install X on my computer (AMD K6-200Khz 64MB -PCI )
> This is not my firs install, I previously had linux on my old 486 and
> all was OK.
>
> After all i tried, when i run startx, xinit, X .... all I get is a blank
> screen. the LCD on my screen reports that the screen is in graphic mode.
> nothing can kill the X (no ctrl-alt-backspace) but boot by ctrl-alt-del
> still works and kills my machin slowly but OK.
>
> I noticed that the clocks that my card has are verry restricted - only
> some 4 clock decribed in bios, the same reported in README.ati file as
> bios default clocks option 3.
Try this: in the section "Device" of XF86Config, add the following lines:
Videoram 4096
ChipId 0x4754
ChipRev 0x01
Regards,
Evgeny
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