Mandriva 2006: bad video in Xorg

> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:29:41 +0000, aprestn5 wrote:
>

>> I'm getting very badly messed up video on X after installing Mandriva
>> 2006 on my main PC. Symptoms are a large black rectangle that follows the
>> pointer, offset pointer position, and really bad colour. It seems that
>> 2006 is installing the wrong driver for my ATI Rage Fury video card.
>> Examining /etc/X11/Xorg.conf shows that the installer selected the "ati"
>> driver for that card rather than the "r128" driver used in the 2005LE
>> install. Replacing "ati" with "r128" in Xorg.conf led to a refusal to
>> start X with a message that the r128 driver was not found.
>>
>> Any idea where the r128 driver for Mandriva 2006 can be found?

>
> As an alternative solution, I will suggest you to use 16 bit display.

> Tejas Kokje wrote:
>

>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:29:41 +0000, aprestn5 wrote:
>>

>>> I'm getting very badly messed up video on X after installing Mandriva
>>> 2006 on my main PC. Symptoms are a large black rectangle that follows the
>>> pointer, offset pointer position, and really bad colour. It seems that
>>> 2006 is installing the wrong driver for my ATI Rage Fury video card.
>>> Examining /etc/X11/Xorg.conf shows that the installer selected the "ati"
>>> driver for that card rather than the "r128" driver used in the 2005LE
>>> install. Replacing "ati" with "r128" in Xorg.conf led to a refusal to
>>> start X with a message that the r128 driver was not found.
>>>
>>> Any idea where the r128 driver for Mandriva 2006 can be found?

>>
>> As an alternative solution, I will suggest you to use 16 bit display.

>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I'd already tried that, but although it did fix
> the screwed up colour, it didn't get rid of the other problems. At the
> moment I'm getting around it by using the slow vesa driver.
>
> What gets me is that the r128 driver worked fine in 2005LE. Why Mandriva saw
> fit to take it out and have Xorg config assign the ati driver to the Rage
> 128 cards, I don't know, since the ati driver is clearly incompatible with
> at least some Rage 128 cards. In the meantime I've submitted a bug report
> to Mandriva's bugzilla site.
>
> Al Preston

> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:54:17 +0000, aprestn5 wrote:
>

>> Tejas Kokje wrote:
>>

>>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:29:41 +0000, aprestn5 wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm getting very badly messed up video on X after installing Mandriva
>>>> 2006 on my main PC. Symptoms are a large black rectangle that follows
>>>> the pointer, offset pointer position, and really bad colour. It seems
>>>> that 2006 is installing the wrong driver for my ATI Rage Fury video
>>>> card. Examining /etc/X11/Xorg.conf shows that the installer selected
>>>> the "ati" driver for that card rather than the "r128" driver used in
>>>> the 2005LE install. Replacing "ati" with "r128" in Xorg.conf led to a
>>>> refusal to start X with a message that the r128 driver was not found.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea where the r128 driver for Mandriva 2006 can be found?
>>>
>>> As an alternative solution, I will suggest you to use 16 bit display.

> Maybe you can try the updated Xorg rpms from the following source:
> http://seerofsouls.com/
> It is being bandied about over at the Mandriva Club website although to be
> honest it has been more with reference to the "nv" driver not working
> pr properly for a lot of people with NVidia cards

> Gireesh K. Bhat wrote:
>

>> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:54:17 +0000, aprestn5 wrote:
>>

>>> Tejas Kokje wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:29:41 +0000, aprestn5 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm getting very badly messed up video on X after installing Mandriva
>>>>> 2006 on my main PC. Symptoms are a large black rectangle that follows
>>>>> the pointer, offset pointer position, and really bad colour. It seems
>>>>> that 2006 is installing the wrong driver for my ATI Rage Fury video
>>>>> card. Examining /etc/X11/Xorg.conf shows that the installer selected
>>>>> the "ati" driver for that card rather than the "r128" driver used in
>>>>> the 2005LE install. Replacing "ati" with "r128" in Xorg.conf led to a
>>>>> refusal to start X with a message that the r128 driver was not found.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea where the r128 driver for Mandriva 2006 can be found?
>>>>
>>>> As an alternative solution, I will suggest you to use 16 bit display.

>

>> Maybe you can try the updated Xorg rpms from the following source:
>> http://seerofsouls.com/
>> It is being bandied about over at the Mandriva Club website although to
>> be honest it has been more with reference to the "nv" driver not working
>> pr properly for a lot of people with NVidia cards

>
> I tried updating from there, but got a lock up when the install started.
> I'm going to try installing the RPM's from the command line.....
>
> Al Preston