TrevorH wrote:chemal I don't think this is helpful. The poster wants to use his video card and he's entitled to pick which one he wants to use.
Thank you. If you decided to use an S3 Trio in a gaming rig, I'd happily support your choice to do so.
But
volumetricsteve wrote:
The parhelia is my targeted gpu, and I've tested it in CentOS 5.11 after I compiled the driver for it - it works fine once the driver is installed.
chemal wrote:
He didn't give any hints why the onboard ATI chip is still a problem. But if you got it, no problem with me.
My list of questions regarding blacklisting is my indication that the ATI rage is "still a problem" though I have a few possible solutions in progress. I refer you to the rest of the thread for evidence of this.
chemal wrote:So you have compiled an old rotting driver from source and forced it into C5, and then told us your Parhelia works fine now. What really is your problem with the onboard ATI chip now? What does it do you don't like?
I have compiled the last stable, official driver available from Matrox on a similar test machine as I previously stated...and it required no forcing since I used CentOS 5.11 which uses a supported kernel. The card itself is fine, the card isn't even an issue here, I could theoretically be using any other video card and the question would remain the same. What does the ATI rage do that I don't like? It exists - I don't want it there, and I can't remove it, so I need to figure out the software changes necessary to accomplish as much as I can... a question which has been answered by a handful of helpful people in this thread, which you'd have noticed if you read the thread prior to posting.