Compaq Armada M700 & ATI Rage Mobility

Hi. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help. I installed Solaris 8 on my Compaq Armada M700 notebook and have had endless trouble getting the display drivers to work.
Does anyone know of any available driver for the ATI RAGE Mobility-P AGP ? I have had to resort to using RedHat Linux which does have drivers for the time being ...

You can go to www.xig.com ,as far as i knew , solaris doesn't support
ATI Rage Mobility-P , I have a same problem like yours , but I am using ATI Rage 128 Mobility (M3) , for more information you can go to
http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/hcl/index.html .

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  • HOWTO Configure this $+%#& ATI rage Mobility 9700?

    Hi all !
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    ibeRtus;
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