There was some discusion lately re: Dell Inspiron FB probs. The bad news
is the ATI Mach64 display support is still broken but just selecting
VESA VGA graphics console is working fine.
The patient is a Dell Inspiron I7500 1050x1450 display, vga = 794.
Bob
> There was some discusion lately re: Dell Inspiron FB probs. The bad news
> is the ATI Mach64 display support is still broken but just selecting
> VESA VGA graphics console is working fine.
>
> The patient is a Dell Inspiron I7500 1050x1450 display, vga = 794.
Ah the infamous Rage Mobility chipset. Three versions of the same chipset
but each is very different.
[James Simmons]
> Ah the infamous Rage Mobility chipset. Three versions of the same
> chipset but each is very different.
I knew it was bad when ATI refuses to publish Windows drivers -- they
basically say "get drivers from your laptop vendor, there is *no*
generic driver that works for everyone".
Peter
On 17 Dec 2000 05:07:01 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> [James Simmons]
> > Ah the infamous Rage Mobility chipset. Three versions of the same
> > chipset but each is very different.
>
> I knew it was bad when ATI refuses to publish Windows drivers -- they
> basically say "get drivers from your laptop vendor, there is *no*
> generic driver that works for everyone".
That's not entirely correct. True enough, they have a very confusing
naming scheme, but that shouldn't set us back too far.
Rage Mobility/M1 = Mach64
M3 = Rage128
M4 = Radeon
For ATI's Mach64 based cards, they chose to let the vendor pick the DAC
that best suited their needs. While this is good from an economical
perspective, it caused massive support headaches. Needless to say, ATI
no longer uses this model. It's not that they refused to publish
drivers, they just screwed themselves out of being able to.
Brad Douglas
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