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

[Aaron Gray]

Great ! Now I find its too large to fit on a single sided DVD.

Will try live desktop instead :-


https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC4/Live/i386/Fedora-19-Alpha-TC4-i686-Live-Desktop-19-1.iso



On 4 April 2013 23:53, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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