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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!noc.near.net!public.x.org!kaleb From: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: The Broken ATI Mach64... correct me if I'm wrong... Date: 27 Sep 95 10:42:50 GMT Organization: X Consortium Lines: 24 Message-ID: <kaleb.812198570@exalt> References: <442dfj$7uk@sake.wwa.com> <4448vo$fnr@news.greatbasin.net> <444pei$m5f@sake.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: exalt.x.org X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6499 comp.windows.x.i386unix:17801 jaykuri@wwa.com (Jason Kuri) writes: >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. PCI Mach64 w/ the AT&T RAMDAC works fine for me. Someone else who was having problems with his card discovered that his PCI motherboard only supported 64meg of RAM as opposed to the more common 128meg. He found that if he set the "membase" option to a value lower than 64meg his card worked fine. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY