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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.spb.su!satisfy.kiae.su!glukr!info.elvisti.kiev.ua!office.elvisti.kiev.ua!stesin From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) Subject: Re: ATI Mach64 with FreeBSD X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2+] Sender: news@info.elvisti.kiev.ua (News Subsystem) Organization: ElVisti Information center Message-ID: <Ds68o6.6I8@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> References: <31A375CD.7E4C@ccohs.ca> <4o8q12$4cg@bullet.oh.sub.org> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: office.elvisti.kiev.ua Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:38:30 GMT Lines: 37 Berni Ernst (berni@bullet.rhein-neckar.de) wrote: : Will Lyons (w.lyons@ccohs.ca) wrote: : : I have tried with no success to install FreeBSD on my new pentium. This : : system has an ATI Mach64 video card which seems to make the boot disk : : crash. Does anyone know is FreeBSD will work with the Mach64 card? : During the last 3 months I installed FreeBSD on 5 machines - : all equiped with ATI Mach64 cards (xpression, winturbo). Only : on ONE machine the XFree 3.11 (or 3.12) X Server was running : properly. And: I had 5 ATI card with 3 different RAMDAC chips. : However, as I'm a ATI-fan I tried out the XInside Server. Result: : this server runs on all of the ATI cards. OK, I had to pay for it : (NOT FREE) but I feel that the server is worth the money. Another option: get XFree86 3.1.2E (or better to say, take 3.1.2D and upgrade it to 3.1.2E -- that's how it's done). Mach64 card works for me now (at last). : bye : berni : -- : ------------------------------------------------------ : | Berni Ernst - berni@bullet.rhein-neckar.de | : | Phone +49 6401 / 2 18 36 | : ------------------------------------------------------ -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 "You may delegate authority, but not responsibility." Frank's Management Rule #1.