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From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin)
Subject: Re: ATI Mach64 with FreeBSD
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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
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	With best regards -- Andrew Stesin.

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