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From: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ATI Mach64 doesn't Work with FreeBsd
Date: 4 Oct 95 10:26:34 GMT
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vernick@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Vernick) writes:

>I have a new machine with an ATI Mach64 card.  Dos and Windows work
>fine.  However, when trying to load FreeBSD, during probe time of the video
>card the monitor goes blank.  I thought that the system had died but that is
>not the case.  I swapped the card into a working FreeBSD (2.0.5-RELEASE)
>system and the same thing happened.  Although the monitor went blank I could
>still rlogin into the system so the probe just causes the monitor to blank
>out.  Any ideas?

Works fine on mine, although ATI has made several different cards, all of 
which they sell as a Mach64.

Most PCI motherboards support 128MB of RAM, but some PCI motherboards only 
support 64MB of RAM. If that's true of yours try setting the "membase" 
option to a number lower than 64M. 

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Kaleb KEITHLEY