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From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD support for ATI video cards?
Date: 18 Jan 1995 05:09:42 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
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In article <D2L1II.K2s@news.cis.umn.edu> klp@gold.tc.umn.edu (Kevin L Prigge) writes:
>
>Ok, I'm getting set to order a new PC to run NetBSD, and the vendor
>I've chosen only has Diamond Cards, and ATI cards. After thumbing
>thru the Hardware FAQ, I find no mention of driver support for ATI
>(I know there's none for Diamond). Any info would be appreciated.
Yup, ATI Mach8 (Graphics Ultra), and ATI Mach32 (Graphics Ultra Pro)
are supported. The Mach64 is not supported in accelerated mode, but
can be used in it's SVGA mode (yuck!). I currently have a 2MB Mach32
running with NetBSD 1.0 & XFree86 v3.1. It is very fast and I've never
run into any problems with it. I have a VLB card, but have used an
ISA in the past without any problems. I would recommend you getting
a local bus card so you can take advantage of the aperture, makes it
much faster... I would imagine the Mach64 will be supported sooner
or later, but here's the info from the README.S3... (supported cards)
...
S3 805, Diamond SS2410 RAMDAC, ICD2061A Clockchip
Diamond Stealth 24 VLB
8 bpp only
requires Option "nolinear"
...
S3 964, AT&T Bt485 RAMDAC, ICD2061A Clockchip
Diamond Stealth 64
8, 15/16, 24(32) bpp
...
-Andrew
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