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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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