Help!! ATI Radeon Driver???

[jvandino]

I'm running SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 and searching for a driver for a Radeon 9000 graphics adapter. If I could find a generic VESA driver that would run 1024x768 at 256 color I could work with that. Any suggestions?

 

[cdlvj]

http://wdb1.sco.com/chwp/owa/hch_search_corp.action

Have you tried any of the other ATI drivers?

Normally servers do not run graphics support because that is what they are Servers.

 

[jvandino]

cdlvj....thanks for the reply. Yes, I've tried the drivers for the ATI Rage chipset and one of the others and they give a corrupted display. I can use the standard drivers for IBM compatible but they will only go as far as 16 color in 640x480. I need at least 256 color and preferably 1024x768. I'm not even looking for 3D acceleration...if I could find a standard VESA driver that would work that would suffice. I understand the purpose of the OS as a server but the particular application that I need this for has to run on SCO OpenServer...it wasn't my choice

I did d/l a standard VESA driver for OpenServer 5.0.4 and installed on my v5.0.6 but the drivers (VESA) didn't appear in the list of available choices in my SCO configuration menu.

 

[cdlvj]

The site for ap lawrence indicates that there were generic vesa drivers, but the link cannot be found.

What graphics driver do I use for my video card?
How do you know what graphics card you have? On 3.2v5.x, the "hw" command can give you at least the beginnings of a clue. If not, inspection of the motherboard (or add-on video card) might give you information. If there isn't a driver for the specific graphics device you have, a driver for a card with the same chipset might work.

Once you know that, you need to pick a driver. Grepping through /usr/lib/grafinfo for what you do know can sometimes help:

grep 758 /usr/lib/grafinfo/* | more

If you don't find it there, you will want to check SCO's ftp site for the latest Advanced Hardware Supplement , and also under pub/drivers for new graphics drivers. In particular, if you have a newer machine (this article was written in April of 1998), and can't find the specific driver you need, you might try the "vesa" drivers. This is a generic driver that will work with almost everything, though not as quickly as a "real" driver might. It's perfectly fine for ordinary work, though.

Otherwise you may just have to change out the card for one that is supported with drivers.