Re: ATI-Rage LT pro help needed

[Aaron Prohaska <verdesoft verdesoft net>]

Have you tried Emailing Steve from his website? I have used his methed
to get X working on my I700, but abviously there is something different
about the setup on your Quantex.

Aaron

"Noronha, Santosh" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have a Quantex i1400 laptop (apparently = Dell i7000), and have been
> trying to install RH6. Most of the install has been successful, however
> I have not been able to install X drivers successfully. My graphics
> card is an ATI Rage LT Pro 2x AGP, 14" LCD panel. Following the hints
> on dejanews and webpages out there on the Dell i7k, I have tried the
> VESA framebuffer method + Mach64 server approach to getting X to work.
> No luck. On startup RH6 does display the penguin and so I assume the
> framebuffer part works. However, X startup times out with a errno 111.
> My XF86Config is the one i downloaded from
> http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/
> 
> There is some mention in that page about the bios preventing X startup
> and a bios downgrade (for dell i7k machines) is provided.  Can I use the
> same bios downgrade for a Quantex laptop?
> (Both brands seem to have a Phoenix bios quietboot setup)
> Has anyone out there been
> successful in getting RH6 + X running on a quantex laptop? Is there
> any other workaround ? (Im not able to get even the SVGA driver
> to work).
> 
> Help!
> Santosh Noronha
> 
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