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

[Nicolas Mailhot]

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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Nicolas Mailhot