ATI Rage Mobility with Xorg - anyone got this working

[Timothy Murphy]

Craig White wrote:

>> Does anyone have a laptop with ATI Rage Mobility video "card"
>> working properly with FC-2, ie with Xorg ?
>> 
>> I can't get this working at 1024 x 480 x 16bpp,
>> as it did with FC-1 (and all previous Redhat distributions).

> I am half tempted to wipe out my RH 8 installation on my C1X and install
> FC-2 and was sort of waiting for you to work this issue through before I
> did - I'm thinking that you are more knowledgable than I in working
> through these things. I will let you know of my results if I do.

I haven't heard of anyone getting this working properly with FC-2,
including people much more knowledgeable than me, eg Steve Barr,
the king of Picturebook Linux <http://www.stevebarr.com>.

Nb It worked perfectly with FC-1.
It seems to be the changeover to Xorg (from XFree86) with FC-2
that caused the problem.
I tried using the ati driver from FC-1 with FC-2,
but unfortunately there seem to have been a large number of changes
(particularly in libraries) going from XFree86 to Xorg.

Incidentally, when changing xorg.conf
(I've got a collection now of about two dozen.)
is there any simpler way of "restarting X"
than going to a text console with Ctr-Alt-F1,
running "sudo telinit 3", changing xorg.conf,
and then running "sudo telinit 5" ?


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