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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: ATI Mach32 and Xfree86 or XS3?
Message-ID: <1993Jan27.230901.25714@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 23:09:01 GMT
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In article <1993Jan26.220906.26671@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.162704.13442@usasoc.soc.mil> 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?
>>
>The ATI Mach32 is based upon ATI's mach32 chipset.
>for speed I suggest acquiring a 928 based card which is faster than the
>ATI MACH32 by as much as 34% overall graphics performace, even on the ISA :-)
>
>Going to a local bus card will not buy you significant performance improvement,
>at least with the S3 chipsets.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Amancio Hasty
>P.S. as for the resolution it can handle 1024x1280 with 256 colors.
Amacio: several articles back, you said you were about to get an 805-S3
board (localbus) running, and that the only chips supported by the
released code were the 801-S3 and below.
Is your "no significant performance improvement" statement based on you
experience with the 805-S3?
Do you have the 805-S3 code ready to go yet?
Is it still your recommendation that one get an 801-S3 until the 805-S3
code is ready?
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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