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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA163 ; Fri, 29 Jan 93 02:01:33 EST Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:10514 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:42513 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!uknet!sys.uea.ac.uk!u9118802 From: u9118802@sys.uea.ac.uk (S.P. Baxter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: ATI Mach32 and Xfree86 or XS3? Message-ID: <u9118802.728227124@oxygen.sys.uea.ac.uk> Date: 28 Jan 93 13:18:44 GMT References: <1993Jan26.162704.13442@usasoc.soc.mil> Sender: news@sys.uea.ac.uk Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK. Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: oxygen.sys.uea.ac.uk 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? I think the Mach32 chip is compatible with the IBM 8514 graphics processor, so you would need a driver for that (no, it is not compatible with either the S3 or ET4000 chipsets, at least as far as accelerated graphics goes). Stephen Baxter