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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ATI Xpert 98 video weirdness
Date: Wed,  1 May 2002 21:46:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f31f1bd6e49a8532fa1107b5c177bf2@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)

> 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.
>
> 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 picked up what was said to be an ATI Xpert 98 AGP X2
on Ebay and it seems to work just fine with the fourth
edition vga, just fyi.  Then again, the chip says
"Rage Pro Turbo AGP" on it, so maybe there's more than
one chip on the AGP X2's floating around, or maybe
I didn't really get an AGP X2.

Russ


             reply	other threads:[~2002-05-02  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-02  1:46 Russ Cox [this message]
2002-05-02  9:31 ` Andrew Stitt
2002-05-03  8:44   ` balajis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-21 16:29 Russ Cox
2002-03-17  7:44 John E. Barham
2002-03-18 10:39 ` Joel Salomon
2002-03-18 16:42   ` Dharani Vilwanathan
2002-03-21  7:57   ` John E. Barham

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