Mandrake 6.X with Number Nine Revolution 3D card

[rycamor]

I am having NO luck setting up X-windows to work with my Revolution 3D video card. It installs fine with RedHat6.0, but neither MD6.0 or 6.1, can detect it properly, even though the card is listed in the choices for XF86Setup and Xconfigurator.<br>
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Anyone else dealt with this problem? Any suggestions?<br>
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Thanks

 

[Octalman]

Here is a work-around. Red Hat and Mandrake are supposedly very similar, so the directories should be enough alike to make this work. Also, the binaries "should" be compatible.<br>
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I am no longer running RH5.2 only because the Release 3.3.2.5 XF86-SVGA driver (and 3.3.3.1, which I downloaded) are not compatible with my SiS6326 AGP card, so I'm having to do this from memory.<br>
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/usr/X11R6/.../bin/X is a syslink to the real X server and<br>
/etc/X11 is a syslink to /usr/X11R6/.../X11 (where ... means "I forget what goes here").<br>
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Look at your working RH6.0 setup and see which X server is linked to X. If Mandrake has that server, just link to it and you should be done. If not,try copying the RH6.0 driver to the Mandrake /usr/X11R6/... directory and linking to it.<br>
This assumes Mandrake uses the new glibc,as does RH, I think a very good assumption. You will need to copy XF86Config over also so you have all the correct settings, but it is just a text file.<br>
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Best wishes.

 

[rycamor]

Thanks,<br>
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You were right. Actually all I had to do was uninstall the I128 Server (not the whole XFree86) and reinstall the RedHat 6.0 rpm for the I128 server and it worked fine.<br>
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By the way, Mandrake 6.0 worked fine with my SiS6326 AGP card.