Hi Mathew; On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 14:38 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:19:59PM -0500, William Case wrote: > > Yes. This post was more a grumpy rant than a request for specific help. > > The details are in earlier unanswered posts. The point is: I have ATI > > Rage 128 Expert 200 video card. It is only 5-6 years old. There should > > In computer years, 5-6 years is almost always past end-of-life. > > > be an updated driver that works with it (later than r128 with dri-- like > > flgrx). If people are getting some window management with PIII and > > however old their video cards maybe, then hopefully there is a driver > > that works with my ATI Expert 200 with 128 MG of video ram. It is Xorg > > that is installing the r128, I think, not me. > > I'm not sure what you're saying here. r128 does appear to be the correct > driver. >From the Fedora Project Wiki site I got the following answer http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject "Known to not work ATI: Rage 128. Looks like driver locking issue. " Got the above -- asked about it in an earlier post. It is not clear whether this is a r128 issue or a card issue. If it is a driver locking problem, then there can be an expectation that it is being worked on. Buying a new video card is a $200 - $300 solution, or a $800 - $1,200 new computer solution which seems to fly in the face of the Linux philosophy. The driver problem may not be r128, but maybe in 'dri' 2D versus 3D. Everything I have worked fine (without compiz of course) in FC5. Matthew I am trying to avoid cuttting and pasting all the details from my earlier posts. If that would be helpful, I will include that text. -- Regards Bill
