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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
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- Subject: Re: ATI Mach32 and Xfree86 or XS3?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.230901.25714@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 23:09:01 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.162704.13442@usasoc.soc.mil> <1993Jan26.220906.26671@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.220906.26671@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan26.162704.13442@usasoc.soc.mil> ted@usasoc.soc.mil (Mr. Ted Nolan) writes:
- >>Hello folks,
- >>
- >>I'm plugging along in my quest to spec out a nice 486 system to get and
- >>run 386BSD and X on. I've seen a few advertisements for the ATI Mach32
- >>video card. It seems this is a local bus card that can do 1024x1280 in
- >>256 color mode. Does anyone know if this has an S3 or ET4000 chipset?
- >>Can you run X on it?
- >>
- >The ATI Mach32 is based upon ATI's mach32 chipset.
- >for speed I suggest acquiring a 928 based card which is faster than the
- >ATI MACH32 by as much as 34% overall graphics performace, even on the ISA :-)
- >
- >Going to a local bus card will not buy you significant performance improvement,
- >at least with the S3 chipsets.
- >
- >Hope this helps,
- >Amancio Hasty
- >P.S. as for the resolution it can handle 1024x1280 with 256 colors.
-
- Amacio: several articles back, you said you were about to get an 805-S3
- board (localbus) running, and that the only chips supported by the
- released code were the 801-S3 and below.
-
- Is your "no significant performance improvement" statement based on you
- experience with the 805-S3?
-
- Do you have the 805-S3 code ready to go yet?
-
- Is it still your recommendation that one get an 801-S3 until the 805-S3
- code is ready?
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
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