Digital PWS433au + Matrox G450 PCI

Buck Rekow rekow at bigskytel.com
Fri Oct 8 20:24:00 UTC 2004


Jay Estabrook wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:19:49PM -0600, Buck Rekow wrote:
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>>anyone ever had luck with ATI rage cards?
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>Yes, or rather, with an ATI Rage 128 card, as that was the first card
>available to me that had 3D support in XFree86 AND was acceptable to
>the SRM console (at least on machines newer than PC164).
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>>my PC164 won't boot with one.. 
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>I'm not too surprised, if you are using SRM console. Its BIOS emulator
>was pretty limited.
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>However, I HAVE had good luck on a PC164 running from ARC/MILO with an
>ATI Rage 128 (and maybe a Radeon), as well as a Voodoo3 3000, AND
>getting the 3D support in RH 7.2 for Alpha to function. The PC164 is
>the only "sparse" Alpha that I've been able to get 3D to work on,
>although I may not have tried others under MILO...
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>So, you need to decide whether SRM or 3D is more important to you... ;-}
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> --Jay++
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well, I do have a fire gl 3000 pro, which is a fairly bad of ass card, 
but debian's X is a little crashy on it.. i seriously want to get 
slackware to work on it. debian sometimes makes me angry.




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