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Re: HELP: ATI 64-bit video



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>On Sun, 26 Nov 1995, George Agasandian wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>> Hi everybody,
>> 
>> I am going to buy a PC with ATI 64-bit video card.
>> Does somebody have any experience with the Linux
>> installed for such card?  The last XFree-HOWTO file
>> says nothing about the ATI 64-bit accelerator.
>> 
>> Thank you in advance,
>> 
>> George.
>
>If you mean the ATI Mach64, then its not fully supported by X. I had one and 
>couldnt get any "workable" resolution with it. The only possible 
>resolution was 640x480. Have a look at comp.os.linux.x/setup/hardware 
>newsgroups. There are quite a few posts concerning this problem.
>
>There are lots of READMEs on the net which specify the supported cards. 
>S3 are said to be quite good.
>
>Good luck, 
>
>	Gilad.

I have an ATI Mach64 Winturbo and I get 4 resolutions upto 1280x1024.
I am using Linux 1.2.1 . I did have to fiddle my own XF86Config file, though,
because the one I got from the CDROM did not contain the parameters for this card.
I will mail it to both of you.


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