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Title: Using the ATI Rage 128 under Linux

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Using the ATI Rage 128 under Linux

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions 6.0 to 6.2
XFree86: Versions up to (including) 3.3.5

Symptom:

You want to configure your XFree86 System with Sax but your rage128-chip based graphic card is not among the list of supported cards. This problem occurs with the ATI XPert2000, ATI Rage Fury, ATI Rage Magnum and others. When starting the X-Server with the Mach64 Server you receive an error message that the chipset is unknown.

Cause:

At the time of realease of SuSE 6.2 the ATI Rage 128 Chip was not supported by the XFree86 X-Server.

Solution:

Download the package ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/X/XFCom/xrage/xrage.rpm from our FTP server. When using XF86Setup for the configuration you'll need to download ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/X/XFCom/xrage/xfsetup.rpm as well.

By the configuration with SaX enter the following commands in order to install the special ATI Rage128 Server instead of the normal SVGA Servers:

rpm -e xsvga
rpm -U xrage.rpm
ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_Rage128 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA

It is possible that with SuSE 6.1 the following error message appears:

failed dependencies:
libNoVersion.so.1 is needed by xrage-1.3-0

This can be corrected by entering:

rpm -e xsvga
rpm -U --nodeps xrage.rpm
ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_Rage128 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
rm /etc/XF86Config

After doing so you can configure the X-Server with SaX by choosing "!!! Generic Server !!!" from the list of graphic cards and SVGA from the list of models. The X-Server will automatically find the graphic card, video memory and RAMDAC.

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Keywords: RAGE128, FURY, MAGNUM, XPERT2000, ATI, XSERVER, LIBNOVERSION

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Categories: X Server

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