Re: old mach64 server new ati server
Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Patrick Deelman wrote: > I installed my old mach64 ati card into my machine to create a sweet > dual cga setup. Right now i'm using 4.2.1 and the ati driver only > enables me to run 8 bit mode. So reading some documentation i figured > out that the ati sriver limits my card to a non-ati card so i can only > do 8 bit mode. That's not the reason. > My question is how can i run my card now at 16 bbp at 1024x786 so i can > look at my screen a nice way. Can i import the 3.3.6 driver or can i > modify the source of the driver. Maybe there are agressive options to > enable 16 bbp? Right now i'm stuck and couldn't find any help in the > docs i i'm turning to the newbie mail list. You can do 1024x768@8bpp. I haven't had a chance to port all XF86_Mach64's RAMDAC support yet. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [email protected] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [email protected] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie