[UCLA-LUG] Re:[UCLA-UG]Help - ATI Rage 128 Xpert

[John A. Gregory]

>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?>
With Xconfigurator - nothing, it doesn't recognise the video card. It seems
to be a font problem, but ''ve tried just about everything I can think of!
>
>> Any ideas?
>> Thanks in advance,
>> John
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