[linrad] Radeon Video Card / svgalib information

[w3sz <w3sz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am doing some housekeeping and came across my information on the ATI 
Radeon 32 MB DDR 4X AGP video card that I use here.  Conrad had trouble 
getting his Radeon card to work with svgalib-1.4.3 and subsequently went 
to the newer version of svgalib, I believe 1.9.17.  I have a minor 
glitch with the Radeon here, and so decided I'd upgrade to the newer 
version of svgalib.  However, I couldn't get any of the newer versions 
of svgalib to compile here, and ultimately went back to 1.4.3.  In the 
process of reinstalling svgalib 1.4.3 from scratch I of course 
rediscovered what I had to do to get the video card working here with 
svgalib.  

Here it is:

To get the Radeon video card to work with svgalib 1.4.3 you need to go to:

http://www.arava.co.il/matan/svgalib/

and under '1.4.3' near the bottom of the page go to the link where is 
says "Please use this driver, r128.c, instead of the one in the 
distribution".  The link goes to:

http://www.arava.co.il/matan/svgalib/r128.c  which is the file that you 
need to download.

but you don't need to know that if you go to the page above and use the 
link on that page..

Once you have downloaded the file r128.c, you must go to the directory 
where you have the source code for svgalib (here it is 
/usr/local/src/svgalib-1.4.3/src) and replace the r.128  file already 
there with the r.128 you got from the above site.  Then you must compile 
it.  When I do this the Radeon works.  When I don't use the new r.128, 
it does not.

Hope that helps, and

73,

--
Roger Rehr
W3SZ
2 Merrymount Road
Reading, PA 19609
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