I does appear that the generic vesa driver is in action, giving what support I do have, as you're saying: The limited support that you have is coming from the X.Org driver ati which is not shown by lshw because it is not a kernel module. UNCLAIMED just means that the device is not claimed by any kernel driver. That there is no driver listed in lshw, is because there is no kernel driver. Basic desktop usage should work a bit but there is no 3D acceleration. You can't get any better graphics on a Rage. And if there were one it would be so old that it does not work on modern Linux versions anymore. ĪlbertP wrote:There is no driver from ATI available for Rage on Linux. I hope haven't bogged this down with too many details, but if I'm missing anything, just ask. I went ahead and ran this unity support test, since it seems to be 3D acceleration-related X.Org: 1.11.3 drivers: ati (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices nee ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF
GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend, OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
Resources: memory:f8000000-fbffffff ioport:de00(size=256) memory:fe9fc000-fe9fffff memory:fea00000-fea1ffffĪny advice on what UNCLAIMED means and how to resolve it would be awesome, since I'm really curious as to what that's all about. Vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)Ĭapabilities: agp agp-2.0 pm vga_controller bus_master cap_listĬonfiguration: latency=64 mingnt=8 <- And shouldn't this line have the driver name in it? *-display UNCLAIMED <- I haven't found satisfactory definition of what this means, just questions about it Second, the open source driver that is in use right now gives some funny feedback in lshw:
Note that I don't have any experience with proprietary linux drivers yet, so I'm a rather green in this department. I know this is an old piece of hardware, but it seems as though there should be a proprietary driver out there for this card. Note that the integrated graphics on the machine only have only an 8MB aperture, and Oolite on Window$ XP seemed to run better than in Linux with a descrete card - which is completely and utterly suprising. Perhaps the fact that the card is old and has only 16MB of RAM could means that it's working as well as it's ever going to work, but please keep reading. I should also state that the cards performance is mostly good, it's really the 3D acceleration that seems to be rather slow (namely in games). I apologize straight-away for asking about such a legacy device, but I've read some conflicting things about this old graphics card I got recently for $6.
When you buy a game you should always be able to just install and play it, instead of developers and publishers having control over the game you've bought.Basic specs: Dimension 4600i, Pentium 4, 1 GB RAM, 16 MB ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF, Mint 13 MATE 32-bit. The pictures on eBay do indeed show the text "RAGE Campaign Edition requires an online connection for activation." Such a letdown. However, I also didn't know Aspyr used online activation for their disc-based releases. Brand-new, sealed copies are still for sale on eBay for just a few Dollar/Pound/Euro, so just buying the game on DVD on eBay would've been the perfect solution to my problem. Rage is a game I'd really want to play, but as it's no longer available on the Mac App Store there's no more way to legally purchase this game. It's no good news at all, but terrible news. I thought maybe Aspyr suddenly released a 64-bit version of Rage on the Mac App Store out of nowhere. When I saw someone had posted in this topic I immediately became exited.