Re: [9fans] ATI Xpert 98 video weirdness

["Dharani Vilwanathan" <dharani@lucent.com>]

Hi,

About a year back someone suggested ATI Xpert 98 and I bought a couple of
cards (AGP 1x version).

I use it with 1600x1200 resolution. It works okay but there is one strange
problem. While I boot the system, it doesnt reliably switch to graphics
mode. It fails about 20% of the time. If I reset the system, the next time
turns to graphics mode. Sometimes it is very frustrating because I am afraid
the file system might get corrupted any time.

Anyone faced a similar pb with ATI Xpert 98?

Thanks
dharani

> john e barham@hotmail.com (John E. Barham) wrote:
> > Well, I bought an "ATI Xpert 98 AGP X2" video card and have managed to
> > install Plan9. FWIW, the chip itself says "RAGE Mobility-L" although
> > I'm using it in a Dell deskstop.
> Sound like it was a 'white box' graphics card.  I have one of those, (
> the same ATI XPERT 98 etc.) & I'm pretty satisfied with it.
>
> > However, the display is messed up w/ left-hand side of the screen
> > repeated and the right side consequently falling off the right-hand side
> > of the screen.  Can I fiddle w/ VGADB to fix this?  Or do I have to
> > "upgrade" my video card yet again?
> I had a similar problem for a time, it's more likely an improper
> selection of monitor in plan9.ini than anything wrong with the video
> card.  Does standard 640x480 work?