[F18][ATI Rage XL] Problems with install on ATI Rage XP video driver

[Aaron Gray]

Okay a bit more info :-

F17 Anaconda is running at the same descent resolution as F16.

On F18 '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' is reporting VESA.

I will try rolling an F19 ISO next just to rule out that its not a
transient bug.

In parallel I will see if I can track down what is causing the problem.

Any pointers are welcome.


On 4 April 2013 18:43, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:

>
> Le Jeu 4 avril 2013 00:03, Adam Williamson a écrit :
> > On 03/04/13 02:50 PM, Felix Kaechele wrote:
> >> Adam Williamson wrote:
> >>> And please do realize your graphics adapter is well over a decade old.
> >>> ATI stopped posting official Windows drivers for it in 2002:
> >>> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/legacy-xp.aspx .
> >>
> >> Quoting from Wikipedia: "It was also seen on Intel motherboards, as
> >> recently as 2004, and was still used in 2006 for server motherboards."
> >>
> >> Well, yeah, old. But not ancient ;)
> >
> > I read that too, but 'seen as recently as 2006' still counts as ancient
> > in my book. Especially 'for server motherboards', where kind of the
> > whole point is no-one gives a crap about whether the graphics work,
> > since they likely won't be plugged in 99.99% of the time...
>
> Actually, one of the reason the Rage XL was used by almost every server
> motherboard for half a decade or more, is that is was very well supported
> in all OSes (Windows, Linux, Enterprise, consumer, recent, old…), and
> didn't require the latest gamer os or an out-of-tree driver to work. From
> a manufacturer POW it was a no-user-returns component.
>
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