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

[Adam Williamson]

On 03/04/13 03:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2013-04-03 22:28 (GMT+0100) Aaron Gray composed:
>
>> Can anyone offer me advice where to look and what to look out for with
>> this
>> ATI Rage XL problem, it was not in F16.
>
> After reading the Rage Wikipedia link Adam posted, I doubt there will be
> a native driver solution. Still, if you have an Xorg.0.log available
> from using F16 it may be useful to compare it to that from trying to use
> F18 or F19.
>
> Note that if this were on a laptop, the root problem could easily be the
> same as on my Dell Inspiron 5000e's Rage 128, which is bad EDID
> thwarting automagic. That I work around by using a simple xorg.conf.

With hardware that old it still could be even with a desktop, who knows 
what the monitor is. The Ubuntu thread he linked to was certainly about 
that.
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