From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <004901c1ce9b$d922bdf0$4bf0b487@dnrc.belllabs.com> From: "Dharani Vilwanathan" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] ATI Xpert 98 video weirdness MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:42:09 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 68f9b678-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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?