ATI Rage128 Driver Now Has RandR Support

Written by Michael Larabel in X.Org on 2 May 2015 at 09:07 AM EDT. 23 Comments
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For anyone still using the ATI Rage 128 graphics card, there's been a rare update to the xf86-video-r128 X.Org driver.

The Rage 128 was released back in 1998 with AGP and PCI varieties, sporting between 8MB and 32MB of vRAM, and clock speeds of aroudn 100MHz or less. While not many still use these OpenGL 1.2 graphics cards, there's still some tinkering with them on Linux. Connor Behan is one of those still playing with the Rage 128 graphics card and on Friday released the xf86-video-r128 X.Org driver.


The xf86-video-r128 6.10 driver update isn't a small update just adding compatibility for new X.Org Servers or the like, but it's the first release that's been ported over to RandR (the X.Org Resize and Rotate extension) and there's many other changes too. Besides RandR there's better MMIO mapping, various fixes, DPMS improvements, unification of some of the driver code, and much more.

The full list of the nearly three dozen changes to this rare update to the ATI Rage 128 Linux graphics driver can be found via this X.Org list announcement.
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