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Old 14th December 2013
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Originally Posted by hanzer View Post
I would be perfectly happy if the radeon driver worked for the ATI Rage XL chipset or if the r128 driver worked with the drm device - and a framebuffer console could be finagled - but I just don't see it in the documentation. Hmm, maybe I'm missing something? What do you think?
Well, I'm fairly confident in guessing it won't work if the documentation doesn't say it will. My earlier comment was just musing about the possibility that support might be added in the future, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

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Actually, I'm not even sure the r128 driver supports the ATI Rage XL (it's an old low-cost pre-128 chip (basically a die-shrunk Rage Pro).
Ahh, ok, thanks for the clarification. I do have a (true) rage in my main box,

Code:
aty128fb: Rage128 RF AGP [chip rev 0x2] 32M 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1)
I'll try it sometime and see if I can get 80x50 on it. (The trick will be remembering to do it!) Although I'm pretty sure the results won't apply to your somewhat different card.
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