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From: u9118802@sys.uea.ac.uk (S.P. Baxter)
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Subject: Re: ATI Mach32 and Xfree86 or XS3?
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ted@usasoc.soc.mil (Mr. Ted Nolan) writes:

>Hello folks,

>I'm plugging along in my quest to spec out a nice 486 system to get and
>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?

I think the Mach32 chip is compatible with the IBM 8514 graphics processor,
so you would need a driver for that (no, it is not compatible with either
the S3 or ET4000 chipsets, at least as far as accelerated graphics goes).

Stephen Baxter