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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
cc: "Eugene N. Minkevitch" <don@ts.sibacc.nsk.su>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ATI MACH64 /PCI-V264CT
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On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Eugene N. Minkevitch wrote:
> 
> >   Can i get any tips how to force FreeBSD 2.1 to work with ati mach64
> > (pci-v264ct). During testing hardware at install BSD turns ati in suspend
> > mode and hangs.  I try it on Pentium-133 / asustek motherboard, and on
> > dx4-120 /asustek motherboard, with two different ati mach64. The result
> > was the same.
> 
> I've got the ASUS PCI-V264CT one (same thing, I'd guess).  Neither the 
> distributed Mach64 X server, nor the distributed SVGA X server will work 
> with it for me.
> 
> At the moment, I'm using the VGA16 X server, which works fine but is 
> rather slow and pokey (and, of course, VGA).

Ouch!

> If you have a look at http://www.xfree86.org and find the FAQ, you will
> see that you need a BETA X server for all 'CT' Mach 64s.  I did just try 
> that BETA X server, but it didn't work -- however, I didn't have time to 
> look into it much farther, so I could well have done something wrongly.

I think so.  The betas do expire after a time.  The current beta is 
3.1.2E.  I'm running this on a CT generation ATI Graphics Pro Turbo and 
it works like a champ.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major