linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] RE: linux mint 15 and ati rage 128 16meg

i get a video picture but its jumpy and a warning on boot up saying no drivers for video device

i done all the things you said and it has the latest r128 installed but get an error on the command aptitude show (e:unable to locate package )

also i get

i A xserver-xorg-video-r128 - X.Org X server -- ATI r128 display driver

i A xserver-xorg-video-r128-dbg - X.Org X server -- ATI r128 display driver

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From: pfrederick1@yahoo.com

To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 7:03 PM

Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] RE: linux mint 15 and ati rage 128 16meg

By not work do you mean you get no output at all? Can you see the BIOS screen of your machine come up on boot? Video adapters do go bad. If you are at least getting console video then the card is probably OK.

I cannot be too sure but I believe the stock open source drivers may be the best drivers for that particular video adapter card. That is usually the case with older ATI now AMD hardware. While I'm not 100% sure I am pretty positive that is definitely the case with your Rage 128. That is a pretty old card.

In any event you should be able to see more of what is going on with this command:

$ aptitude search r128

If you don't have the aptitude command install it with

# apt-get install aptitude

Then you can take the output of that, on my system it returned xserver-xorg-video-r128 and use it to see exactly what that is

$ aptitude show xserver-xorg-video-r128

If the driver is not installed then installing it may help you out. This is what it looks like when a package is installed

i A xserver-xorg-video-r128 - X.Org X server -- ATI r128 display driver

The "i" at the beginning of the line means installed. A "p" would mean it is not installed. "p" stands for pending.

# aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-r128

I run Debian so things might not exactly match, but Mint uses Debian's package manager, so things should work similarly.

This should tell you what driver X Window is using:

$ grep -i driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log

In X Window you should be able to issue this command in a terminal:

$ glxinfo

and that will tell you the state of your GL

If you are at the console you can attempt to start an X Window session with the

$ startx

command. Then whether X Window starts, or not, you should still get a log file to examine.

Being as you say you're very new to Linux here is a bonus command

$ tail -f /var/log/syslog

It probably won't help you out with what you're trying to do now. But it is useful if you ever want to see what your computer is trying to tell you :)

you hit CTRL+C to stop that tail from running. I figure I might as well tell you that too. Anyway have fun with Linux. It'll all come to you eventually. Well, maybe not all of it, but enough. It takes some time.

---In linux_newbies@yahoogroups.com, <runcnode@...> wrote:

Hi all i have a ati rage 128 16meg video card and cannot for the life of me get it to work

i have downloaded two drivers that say they will work but being very new to linux i dont have a clue the files i down loaded are :xf86-video-r128-6.9.2.tar.gz & amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-4-linux-x86.x86_64.zip any help would be most gratefully recived

cheers jim