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From: noel@reg.triumf.ca (NOEL GIFFIN)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ATI Mach32 and Xfree86 or XS3?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 13:26 PST
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
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In article <1993Jan26.162704.13442@usasoc.soc.mil>, ted@usasoc.soc.mil (Mr. Ted Nolan) writes...
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>run 386BSD and X on. I've seen a few advertisements for the ATI Mach32
>video card. It seems this is a local bus card that can do 1024x1280 in
>256 color mode. Does anyone know if this has an S3 or ET4000 chipset?
>Can you run X on it?
bad news
No it isn't an S3 or ET4000 chip, it is their own mach32 accelerator chip.
good news
however it does emulate ibm 8514 graphics device and generic unix drivers
for this standard should work, so x-windows is possible.
bad news
Then again with 8514 drivers you aren't accessing the mach32 acclerator
at all so you are paying a big price for performance you won't use.
Also I believe the 8514 emulation is 1024x768x256 . If you want to
use the 1280x1024x256 modes or any of the other hi-colour or true-colour
modes your going to have to come up with your own driver as ATI is
having enough problems delivering working drivers for MSDOS and windows
let alone OS/2 and unix.
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