> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bonita Hatcher [mailto:bonita@paperbeagle.com]
>
> The ATI Rage Pro driver in 2.4.0-test1-ac18 doesn't work on my ATI Rage
> Pro LT equipped Compaq Presario 1800T.
>
> I'm not sure it's really supposed to be, but the author Brad Douglas,
> brad@neruo.com, thought it ought to work.
>
> The chips added in the table of chips to probe for are the "Rage
> Mobility M3" PCI and AGP, with PCI_DEVICE_ID_ATI_RAGE128_LE and LF.
>
> I think I have a different chip. So I get a blank screen when I boot
> with this driver.
Send me the output from lspci -n. Let's get to the bottom of this.
Hmm.. Just did some checking. Try the ATI Mach64 frame buffer driver,
first. The Rage LT Pro is not part of the Rage128 family.
> I stuck in some code brad sent me directly and patched it a little to
> compile under 2.4.0xxx and it compiles OK but didn't work either.
>
> From the look of it there's a lot of difference between what brad sent
> me and what is in the ac18 kernel.
I wrongly sent you a 2.2 backport.
> I have the book "Linux Kernel Internals" and haven't read it yet. I can
> compile a 2.4.0 kernel with the latest patches. I know how to press my
> power key to turn my machine off and so far that hasn't eaten my hard
> disk. So that's the extent of my kernel hacking qualifications... for
> Linux at least.
When you get a blank screen at bootup, you can let it finish booting and
telnet in to make things right. Or perhaps serial console.
Brad Douglas
brad@neruo.com
http://www.linux-fbdev.org
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