[TriLUG] X Problems

[Benjamin Reed]

On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 09:14, Vestal, Roy L. wrote:
> X4 doesn't work well with ATI Rage cards. No one has been writing drivers to
> run DRI correctly on the Rage series. I'd recommend removing X4 and
> installing X3.3.6. I had this problem to with my ATI Rage Pro 2MB. Finally,
> I just bought an Nvidia GE-Force2 MX 200 and X4 loves it.

Actually Rage Pro (and a number of other mach64 chipsets) now have
preliminary support in XFree86 CVS, according to the DRI folks.

Check out the DRI list at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=6511 -- there's
been a pretty good discussion of Mach64 DRI for the last few weeks.

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