Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 20:56:56 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No xvideo support for ATI Rage Pro? Message-ID: <200303202056.59572.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <3E7A070F.8030405@liwing.de> References: <3E797D1F.8070807@ant.uni-bremen.de> <200303201423.27103.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <3E7A070F.8030405@liwing.de>
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--Boundary-02=_L0he+dHXjfSFQ21 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 20 March 2003 19:23, Jens Rehsack wrote: > Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > On Thursday 20 March 2003 13:47, Jens Rehsack wrote: > >>Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>>Isn't the Rago Pro a different card than the Rage 128 Pro? > >> > >>Sometimes, sometimes not ... > > > > Definitely different, and not just sometimes. :) The RagePro chipset is > > much older than the Rage 128 Pro. > > Sorry, the site at ati.com is gone where the several chips are > described, but in past sometimes I had to identify the cards by chip and > a number on it. There are some Rage PRO and Rage 128 Pro which were the > same and there were differences between several Rage PRO's and Rage 128 > PRO's and Rage 3D PRO's. ATi's chip naming conventions are confusing. For example, the non-marketing= =20 name for the chipsets on several 'Rage 128' and 'Rage 128 Pro' products is= =20 "3D Rage Pro 128" (duh), and there are over 40(!) different revisions of th= e=20 3D Rage Pro 128. Most of them have some two-letter suffix (3D Rage Pro 128= =20 PA, 3D Rage Pro 128 PP, 3D Rage Pro 128 SG, 3D Rage Pro 128 RL, etc). So, to clarify, when I said "Rage Pro", I was referring to all non-3D Rage = Pro=20 128-but-still-fifth-generation-except-mobile-chipsets, i.e. oldish chips li= ke=20 the RageIIc, 3D Rage Pro PCI/AGP and 3D Rage Pro Turbo, which have been use= d=20 in products like the "3D Charger" and the "XPERT@WORK"/"XPERT@PLAY" cards, = or=20 the old cores in new housings like the RageXL chip used on the "XPERT XL"=20 cards or the OEM chip in the Dell Poweredge 6300 (have I clarified anything= =20 now? I'm not sure...) which require extra driver work to access the=20 hardware-scaler and overlay facilities. So I guess, it's really kinda hard for anybody who's not been juggling with= =20 ATi chips for the last few years to keep track. I'm not sure I managed=20 either... :) =2D-=20 Regards, Michael Nottebrock --Boundary-02=_L0he+dHXjfSFQ21 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+eh0LXhc68WspdLARApZqAJ9zwGpl4r3BP/pi9qyiX6x0DDqyYACghvTT ZOr23ASGRV/mDv4jJGvbf4k= =5Y1l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_L0he+dHXjfSFQ21-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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