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From: dawes@xfree86.org (David Dawes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: The Broken ATI Mach64... correct me if I'm wrong...
Date: 28 Sep 1995 12:41:01 GMT
Organization: The XFree86 Project, Inc
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In article <kaleb.812198570@exalt>, Kaleb KEITHLEY <kaleb@x.org> wrote:
>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.
The newer AT&T RAMDACs are not supported in the XFree86 Mach64 server
(ie the AT&T20C408 range). Even the older ones aren't supported as well
as they could be.
David
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