r128 driver problem on FC5

[nigel henry]

This is what I posted to the Fedora Forum on 27/5/06. No answers yet.

<quote>
FC5 X won't start with Rage128's r128 driver, but will start using the vesa 
driver 
 
Hi folks. Yet another problem. I have FC1,2, and 3 on this Gateway 500 
machine, using P111 (katmai) , and 256MB RAM. Graphics card is Rage 128, 
using the r128 driver. FC5 refuses to start X using the r128 driver, and I 
had to change xorg.conf to use the vesa driver. I'm mainly interested in 
getting FC5 to play DVD's. FC1, and 2 on this machine, using Mpayer play them 
ok, admittadly using the tarball install of Mpayer. On FC5 the tarball 
install of Mplayer would not compile, a GCC version problem I think. The rpm 
from the Greysector repo installed, but I am getting 100% CPU, and the 
playback is juddery, and sound comes in bursts. Someone on the Ogle list 
suggested that this is a problem with the vesa driver.
 
 Anyone any suggestions as to how to get the r128 driver to work on FC5? 
 
 I had terrible problems even getting FC4 to install, on the other machine 
using a Cyberbladei1 card using the Trident driver. I had to change this to 
vesa to get X to start, but after doing the updates I was able to change the 
graphics card driver back to Trident, and all worked ok. No such success with 
FC5 though.
 
 I cannot understand how there are no problems with graphics cards with FC1,2, 
and 3, but starting with FC4 there are all these problems.
 
 Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Nigel. aka mekon.
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The graphics work ok on FC5 using the vesa driver, but I should be able to use 
the r128 driver for the Rage 128 PCI graphics card, which works just fine for 
FC1,2, and 3. r128 driver broken?

In anticipation. Nigel.