ATI RAGE XL XORG DRIVER DOWNLOAD

Is this repeating on other machines with similar hardware, and do you have a spare video card that is compatible with the system to test out also? Have you tried at minimum using just the standard VESA driver? This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. It happens not too often but as older cards see less driver support, and support is at a dead end, it starts showing up. Bookmarks Bookmarks Digg del. Originally Posted by turtleli.

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Both 'Xorg -configure' and 'xorgsetup' also crash on these machines.

wti I couldn't remember what happens with vesa, so I went ahead and tried it. The newest release which is in Slack After much Googling and tinkering, I got the thing working with much better screen resolutions.

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Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies. If I terminate X with a ctl-alt-bksp, the screen turns black, and I think the computer has crashed because I can't switch to any virtual console. On servers, I don't use a GUI. I looked in modules. I think the key was identifying my monitor capabilities, because the Xorg detection identified the video adapter, the Mach64 driver just fine.

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For details and our forum data attribution, retention and privacy policy, see here. Have you tried at minimum using just the standard VESA driver? For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration.

Join our community today! I installed the driver from the Find More Posts by turtleli.

ATI Rage XL: /etc/X11/xorg.conf

If it's crashing with the actual driver then you have something seriously wrong happening. For developers they try to keep support of commonly used hardware if driver code is maintained, but all too often older cards that start getting deprecation in driver support, will get pushed back to barebones support through VESA and LLVMPipe atk Mesa. Find More Posts by ReaperX7. Apparently this is a well known problem with Rage Pro based video adapters: Older video cards aren't subject to continued support on any OS.

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[SOLVED] ati rage xl (rev 27) drivers

March 16th, 3. I am a little concerned about this because I have three of these cards, and someday I may want to agi to a newer version of Slackware. It's been a while, though, and I've given up on using X11 on that PC.

Through a ton of googling, I see that the same thing happens in other distros, too.

Originally Posted by turtleli This bug report about the xorg server segfaulting with a mach64 driver might be relevant to you. Slackware This Forum is for the discussion of Slackware Linux. Found this on the Arch Wiki. The time now is Join Date Oct Beans 3. You are currently viewing LQ as a guest.

I've searched extensively for drivers, but can only find radeon xirg drivers. Results 1 to 6 of 6. On all machines with that video card, the X system in Slack