From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Andrew Stitt Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII References: <4f31f1bd6e49a8532fa1107b5c177bf2@plan9.bell-labs.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] ATI Xpert 98 video weirdness Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 09:31:24 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 84056192-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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