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From: Andrew Stitt <astitt@cats.ucsc.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ATI Xpert 98 video weirdness
Date: Thu,  2 May 2002 09:31:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1020501193432.18347A-100000@teach.ic.ucsc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f31f1bd6e49a8532fa1107b5c177bf2@plan9.bell-labs.com>

fwiw i got a similiar pci card, it worked as an Xpert 98, and a Rage
something or other. I dont know why. In windows (my os at the time) the
ati drivers let you install it as either.


On Thu, 2 May 2002, Russ Cox 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.
> >
> > 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  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-02  1:46 Russ Cox
2002-05-02  9:31 ` Andrew Stitt [this message]
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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