Re: old mach64 server new ati server

Patrick Deelman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.newbie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Marc Aurele La France wrote:

>On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Patrick Deelman wrote:
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>>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.
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>That's not the reason.
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>>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.
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>You can do 1024x768@8bpp.  I haven't had a chance to port all
>XF86_Mach64's RAMDAC support yet.
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Hmmm... too bad. looks like i have to wait then :(
well offcourse the next question. Any idea when it will be fixed? Sure 
would be great to see in 16 bbp. Thanks for the quick reply.

Patrick

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