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

Aaron Gray aaronngray.lists at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 22:53:57 UTC 2013


Thanks Adam.

I am just downloading the
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC4/ alpha to try first
before looking any deeper at the actual RPMS code.


On 4 April 2013 23:29, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 04/04/13 03:10 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:
>
>> AFAICT it does not seem to be a missing RPM level problem
>> There is just an ATI driver 'xorg-x11-drv-ati.i686' which is available
>> on F16, F17, and F18.
>>
>
>  It is being loaded on F18 on the HP DL140 G3 with ATI Rage XL video
>> controller. So presumably it is either a problem with the probing being
>> broken, or the Rage XL driver being removed or broken.
>>
>
> The 'ati' driver is a bit odd; it's just a wrapper for the real drivers.
> Viz the manpage:
>
> DESCRIPTION
>        ati  is  an  Xorg  wrapper  driver for ATI video cards.  It
> autodetects whether your hardware has a Radeon, Rage  128,  or  Mach64 or
>  earlier class of chipset, and loads the radeon(4), r128(4), or mach64
> driver as appropriate.
>
> Though, looking at that description, I do see that 'radeon', 'r128' and
> 'mach64' all appear to be present in the F19 repos. 'mach64' may not be
> installed by default, though - can you check if you have the
> 'xorg-x11-drv-mach64' package installed? If not, try installing it.
>
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