Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 46686
ATI Xpert 128 PCI incorrectly detected by installer
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:34:19 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: The ATI Xpert 128 PCI video card is incorrectly detected by the installer. It is detected as an ATI Rage 128 (generic), and will not work. In fact, none of the ATI drivers seem to work for this card. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start graphical install of RHL 7.1 2. When the X configuration comes up, note what's detected 3. Attempt to use the drivers and settings for that card Actual Results: X will not come up with this card, using ANY of the ATI drivers within the RHL 7.1 distribution. Even the ATI Xpert 128 AGP driver fails. Expected Results: Proper video card detected; proper XF86Config written Additional info: System hardware: +ASUS PSB-F motherboard w/IDE controller on board +P-III 600E CPU +512 MB RAM +Samsung 40GB IDE HD +Creative 52X IDE CD-ROM +no net card, no sound card +ATI Xpert 128 video w/16MB RAM, PCI +Philips 109S monitor +MS wheel mouse and Natural Keyboard
We have a few ATI Xpert 128 cards here and they work fine. Actually, it uses the same chipset as the ATI Rage, so it's not a problem that it is detected as a Rage 128. Does the card work with other operating systems?
Yes. The card works fine on ME and 2000. Haven't tried Solaris/x86 yet, but if I can't get Linux running on this machine, then Solaris it will be.
Have you tried doing a text mode install and testing the video card that way? Another thing to try is to install X Windows, but skip testing the video card in the installer. Then, use Xconfiguration after installation and see if that helps. I have used Solaris 8.0 x86 before, and it only supports a few video cards. It might support yours, though.
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