From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: Video Problem - ATI Rade 128
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 09:50:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BB3747C.11B71AD7@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <viHs7.1426$c8.119800@news1.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Joseph Gaffney wrote:
> I'm trying to install Plan 9, and rio won't start. Apparently, it can't
> detect my ATI Rage 128 PCI. Is there any way around this? I can't find
> another video card, and I'd like to get it up and running. Any ideas?
Alas, the Rage 128 is not supported.
*Some* ATI Xpert 98 products (probably not the "value" versions) work
fine.
I recently changed from Xpert 98 to Nvidia GeForce 2, which required
some
modification and rebuilding (but at least the driver was provided).
This whole PC video business is disgusting. Xi Graphics sells an X
server
to replace the native Solaris x86 version, which supports a lot of cards
(including I think Rage 128) but not GeForce 2. Everybody always claims
that what they haven't supported is due to not getting information out
of
the video card (or chip) manufacturer. (SunSoft now supports the
XFree86
video drivers, via an add-on package, on Solaris x86, and thus they now
"support" more cards I care about than any other product that I know
of.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-01 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-27 15:26 [9fans] " Joseph Gaffney
2001-10-01 9:50 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-10-01 15:52 [9fans] " Russ Cox
2001-10-02 8:34 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-02 3:16 okamoto
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