Lewis Johnson (ljohnson@direct.ca)
Fri, 09 Jul 1999 15:50:33 -0600
>Hi All,
>
>Has anyone tried to use a different video card on an ANS yet?
>
>I'd like to get better than 640x480 8-bit up and running, and have a
>spare ATI XClaim GA laying around. I tried to get it working with OF by
>setting the output variable to ATY,>setting the output variable to ATY,XCLAIM@E, but that just left me with
>no video at all.
>
>Any suggestions, kernel arguments, etc.?
I tried using an ATI Xclaim 3D card. The system would hang at boot time with
the ATI drivers in the kernel. If built the kernel with out support for ATI
cards I could get it to work but only in 8bpp.
To get the display to work in OF I had to use the entire device name as the
display device.
ie /bandit/ATY,ie /bandit/ATY,XCLAIM3DPro@e
This is probably the wrong name.
I got it to change resolutions by doing:
dev /
cd /cd /bandit@f2000000/ATY,XCLAIM3DPro
d setvideo-mode
boot
in OF. The 'd' tells it which display mode to use. After changing the mode
the OF display would be unreadible. I'd type boot and when the kernel init'd
the video it would work.
If you cd to the card in OF and type 'words' it should give you a listing of
the commands.
The problems I had with the ATI driver seem to be after linux tried to
initialize the internal video - possibly it was trying to use the ATI driver
on the internal video.
I hope this helps you.
Lewis
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