The thing that puzzles me, is when I first booted with the ATI card I was presented with the blue screen to configure X's settings. I thought this might happen or that I'd be left at the command line so that was okay but, when I got to the bit to choose the resolution and colour depth, now this is the weird bit because, normally with the Nvidia card it tells me that 1280x1024x24 might not work for my card but it does perfectly. With the ATI card it tells me all should be fine but it isn't?
I've looked in my xorg.conf and here's what it tells me;
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "probe_sparse" # [<bool>]
#Option "accel" # [<bool>]
#Option "crt_display" # [<bool>]
#Option "composite_sync" # [<bool>]
#Option "hw_cursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "force_pci_mode" # [<bool>]
#Option "dma_mode" # <str>
#Option "agp_mode" # <i>
#Option "agp_size" # <i>
#Option "local_textures" # [<bool>]
#Option "buffer_size" # <i>
#Option "tv_out" # [<bool>]
#Option "tv_standard" # <str>
#Option "mmio_cache" # [<bool>]
#Option "test_mmio_cache" # [<bool>]
#Option "panel_display" # [<bool>]
#Option "reference_clock" # <freq>
#Option "shadow_fb" # [<bool>]
#Option "sw_cursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "ati" #card0driver
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "3D Rage IIC AGP"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
it also has at the bottom this; #PuppyHardwareProfile=ATI_MACH64381996. I'm not using a mac, I've got a PIII with 547MB of ram, so the graphics shouldn't have any problems at that resolution (I was using this same version of Puppy on a PII with 64MB of ram and it was fine).
I've looked for Linux drivers for this particular card but I've come up short. The only site I found was an AMD site that looks like its affiliated with Ati (have they teamed up together? Same company??), not sure what going on there, but they didn't have my card listed in the unsupported section (or the currently supported section).
I don't know whether its because the card is cwappy, I thought because Puppy suggested that it was "okay for card" that it would be better than the Nvidia?
Any thoughts or suggestions welcome.