ATI Rage Mobility with Xorg - anyone got this working

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sun Aug 8 09:27:48 UTC 2004


Price Technology wrote:

>> Does anyone have a laptop with ATI Rage Mobility video "card"
>> working properly with FC-2, ie with Xorg ?
>> 
>> I can't get this working at 1024 x 480 x 16bpp,
>> as it did with FC-1 (and all previous Redhat distributions).

> The only thing I can suggest may be an issue is that, during install, I
> had to change the display from "generic" to Dell Laptop Display at
> 1024x768.  Everything else took care  of itself.

Perhaps the problem with Xorg on the Picturebooks
with ATI Rage Mobility
(more specifically, Rage Mobility P/M)
lies in the display rather than the video card.

It would be nice if there was a way to compare the commands given
by the card in XFree86 and Xorg.
Is this possible?

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Timothy Murphy  
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