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From: jaykuri@wwa.com (Jason Kuri)
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Subject: Re: The Broken ATI Mach64... correct me if I'm wrong...
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Date: 24 Sep 1995 23:26:10 GMT
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Eric Blood (eblood@cs.unr.edu) wrote:
: jaykuri@wwa.com (Jason Kuri) wrote:
: > As an aside, (and in defense of ATI?) I want to say that I have a VLB ATI
: >Xpression card (with the Chrontel chip) and it works beautifully. I
: >also have a PCI version of the same card and it does not.
: There are two machines here (both PCI) one with an ATI Xpression bought
: about 6 months ago, and another with the same card bought last week.
: Both have FreeBSD up and running with X running at 1024x768 and 1280x1024.
: No problems there.
To Clarify, as I suppose it is a little ambiguous, The PCI card I
referred to has the new AT&T chip in it, whereas the VLB version has the
original Chrontel. Additionally, I'm using Xfree86.
Jay
---
Mind you, I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what
there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been
inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of
ironmongery in the trade.