[UCLA-LUG] Help - ATI Rage 128 Xpert

[witten@linux.ucla.edu]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 07:57:59PM +0100, John A. Gregory wrote:
> Hi,
> I've a Fujitsu-Siemens Myrica with an ATI Rage 126 Xpert video card. I've
> been trying to install Red Hat Linux 6.1, but a standard (with Xwindows)
> installation failed with server not found. I then succesfgully installed it
> in text mode. 
> At the beginning of January I downloaded the latest XFree86 with ATI Rage
> 128 support. I've installed it and managed to configure it using XF86Setup
> - horiz synch 30-86, vert synch 50-120.
> I can now start Xwindows but the characters look mostly like bar codes!

I don't think I've seen that before. Are you sure that you have fonts setup
correctly in /etc/X11/XF86config ? What happens if you try configuring X
with Xconfigurator instead?

> Any ideas?
> Thanks in advance,
> John
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