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From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: io.general,io.computers,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: List of recommended hardware components
Date: 4 Feb 1995 08:36:36 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp., Langley, BC, Canada
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Message-ID: <3gveak$ghh@deep.rsoft.bc.ca>
References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <3gv07t$bld@pentagon.io.com>
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In article <3gv07t$bld@pentagon.io.com>,
Torin/Darren/Who Ever... <torin@pentagon.io.com> wrote:

>I was running a nice little linux system and I would have odd X lockups
>that I couldn't ever figure out.  I replaced the ATI Mach32 GUP with a
>#9 GXE64Pro and moved the ATI card over to a MS-Windoze machine.  This
>was the end of my odd X lockups.  (The lockups I get now, I can
>explain.)  Now, the MS-Windoze system sporadically locks up.

Sounds like the card is broken. I've used an Ultra Pro VLB extensively
under FreeBSD 2.0 and it's worked like a charm. (We've also got about
a hundred of these at work--we're mostly an AutoCAD shop--and have
experienced no problems at all with them.) I'm buying the PCI version
for my new system.

The card is quite fast, I find (at least under X--it's not nearly as
fast under Windows for some reason) and it's quite cheap, too.

cjs
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