[TriLUG] Video drivers for ATI Rage

David A. Cafaro dac at cafaro.net
Mon Aug 25 16:49:30 EDT 2003


You could try the drivers at http://gatos.sourceforge.net/
I've used these in the past to have good 3D acceleration with Rage Mobility 
cards on laptops using XFree86 4.x series.

-David

Roy Vestal wrote:
> AFAIK, ATI RAGE series drivers are not really being upgraded in X 4.x.x.
> You may want to try installing X 3.3.6. It worked well on my old ATI
> Rage series.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 15:30, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
> 
>>Are there updated drivers for the ATI Rage Pro Ultra 128 for linux?  We've
>>got one of those installed on a RedHat 9 box, and in order to open Enemy
>>Territory we've got to set the AllowSoftwareGL flag, which makes
>>everything run *extremely* slow.  Is there some settings I can change to
>>enable openGL, does this card even have OpenGL, or are there some drivers
>>available?  I've looked through Google and ATI's site, but didn't find
>>much.  Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jeff
> 
> 

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