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I'm rJohn Jackson wrote:
> 
> I want to put an ATImach64 video card in an machine that is running OS/2
> and soon Linux and Xfree86.
> 
> Is anybody running a similar system and if so could you post me your views
> on whether you are happy with the card and if you've come across any
> problems or not.
> 
> My system is a 133 Pentium w/ 32 mb ram on an Octek m/board.
> 
> The card I'm considering will probably be one of the lower end cards with
> 2mb Dram.
> 
> TIA
> John JacksonI'm running an ASIS video card which uses the MACH 64 processor and has 2 
Mb of DRAM  and i'm very happy with it.

In message <4nhc77$pv8@the-fly.zip.com.au> - johnj@zip.com.au (John Jackson)17
May 1996 08:09:10 GMT writes:
:>
:>I want to put an ATImach64 video card in an machine that is running OS/2 
:>and soon Linux and Xfree86.

I've been happy enough with mine (mach32 at home, mach64 at work). They've got
better than average DOS response than most cards have these days, but I don't
know if that's meaningful in your context; does either Linux or X86 have video
accelerators?

Every once in a while the fonts or drop down boxes go stupid in OS/2, but it's
usually cured by opening a DOS or OS/2 full screen session then closing it,
forcing a repaint.

On the other hand, I've seen some very positive comments on the Matrox stuff
under OS/2.


/*Rob Saker <resaker@teleport.com> on OS/2 Warp*/
/*Is Win95 really ........  Bob for Workgroups?*/

johnj@zip.com.au (John Jackson) wrote:

>I want to put an ATImach64 video card in an machine that is running OS/2 
>and soon Linux and Xfree86.

>Is anybody running a similar system and if so could you post me your views 
>on whether you are happy with the card and if you've come across any 
>problems or not.

>My system is a 133 Pentium w/ 32 mb ram on an Octek m/board. 

>The card I'm considering will probably be one of the lower end cards with 
>2mb Dram.

The ATI drivers have problems on some systems; I would suggest going
with a newer, better card if at all possible.

-Tom Wheeler

In <4nhc77$pv8@the-fly.zip.com.au>, johnj@zip.com.au (John Jackson) writes:
>I want to put an ATImach64 video card in an machine that is running OS/2 
>and soon Linux and Xfree86.

[snip]

   I run an ATI Xpression (mach 64, 2MB DRAM) ISA and it runs pretty well
in OS/2. XFree86 doesn't like it, because it's an ISA card, but VLB/PCI
versions of the card are supposed to be well supported.

   BTW, if you buy the card, get the latest drivers from http://www.atitech.ca !

---
Alain Southiere, alsouth@cam.org | You can't always get what you want,
http://www.cam.org/~alsouth      | But if you try sometimes,
---------------------------------| You might find you get what you need
OS/2 Warp !                      |              - the Rolling Stones

Tom Wheeler (twh270@airmail.net) wrote:
: johnj@zip.com.au (John Jackson) wrote:

: >I want to put an ATImach64 video card in an machine that is running OS/2 
: >and soon Linux and Xfree86.

: >Is anybody running a similar system and if so could you post me your views 
: >on whether you are happy with the card and if you've come across any 
: >problems or not.

: >My system is a 133 Pentium w/ 32 mb ram on an Octek m/board. 

: >The card I'm considering will probably be one of the lower end cards with 
: >2mb Dram.

: The ATI drivers have problems on some systems; I would suggest going
: with a newer, better card if at all possible.

: -Tom Wheeler

I have an ATImach64 PCI, and it isn't recognised by the kernel whatever i
do. (1.2.13) That means no Xwindows.

--
Marcell Nagy
M.Nagy@cs.ucl.ac.uk

On 17 May 1996 08:09:10 GMT, John Jackson at johnj@zip.com.au wrote:
: I want to put an ATImach64 video card in an machine that is running OS/2 
: and soon Linux and Xfree86.

: Is anybody running a similar system and if so could you post me your views 
: on whether you are happy with the card and if you've come across any 
: problems or not.

I have the ATI XPression, which is a Mach64 with 2MB DRAM.  I works fine 
under both OS/2 and Linux, but one could wish for better driver support 
from ATI.  But it will support all colour depths and resolutions, and has 
OS/2 native install utilities.  I run 16 bit at 1024x768/75 Hz with no 
problems.  The Linux side also works fine, but with a caveat.  They 
integrated the RAMDAC onto the MACH64 chip a while back and this broke 
the driver.  If you get one of the new cards with this version, there is 
a fix out.  At the time I was doing this, it meant running the next 
version of XFree drivers, which was in Beta but stable.  This may have 
gone GA by now.

Craig Kossowski

Followups trimmed; Please don't cross-post excessively.

Marcell Nagy wrote:
> 
> Tom Wheeler (twh270@airmail.net) wrote:
> : johnj@zip.com.au (John Jackson) wrote:
> 
> : >I want to put an ATImach64 video card in an machine that is running OS/2
> : >and soon Linux and Xfree86.
> 

> Marcell Nagy
> M.Nagy@cs.ucl.ac.uk
I use Mach64-Card for my own, i know friends using them and i have installed
them at office-pcs. So I have tested four different generations of Mach64
PCI-Cards with Windowss, Windows NT and OS/2. All of them run OS/2, of course
DOS/Windows, one of them (WinTurbo 2/Upgradable) did not run Windows NT 3.5
(but worked fine with 3.51), one of them (ProTurbo 1600 w 4MB) didn't run
Linux/X because ist was different in Hardware (uses IBM RAMDAC) to 1280x1024
cards. Maybe it is supported in the Meantime. Maybe there are 20 new Versions
of Mach64 cards since my latest tests (three month ago).

Chris

I'm running the following OS's in multiboot configs with an ATI Mach64 
Turbo VLB:

Dos
Windows 3.x
Win 95
Win NT
Linux Redhat 2.1

I installed Linux with the GUI install option off of a CD-ROM 
distribution.  I have no problems to mention.  Went pretty smoothly.

System Config:  AMD 486DX4-100; 12MB RAM, Unknown M/B.

In article <1996May20.124402.40388@ucl.ac.uk>,
Marcell Nagy <zcacmxn@cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>I have an ATImach64 PCI, and it isn't recognised by the kernel whatever i
>do. (1.2.13) That means no Xwindows.
>


I've had an ATI Mach64 PCI card for some 1.5 years, and have been running
XFree86 since the day I got the card. Last year, I played around for a few
months with OS/2 2.1 - no problems there, either.


"Recognized by the kernel"? Why should the card be recognized by the kernel?

In article <1996May20.124402.40388@ucl.ac.uk>,
Marcell Nagy <zcacmxn@cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>Tom Wheeler (twh270@airmail.net) wrote:
>: johnj@zip.com.au (John Jackson) wrote:
>
>: >I want to put an ATImach64 video card in an machine that is running OS/2 
>: >and soon Linux and Xfree86.

The CT variant of the Mach64 is not supported by IBM (Warp).
It will probably be supported for Merlin.  This is according to an IBM
employee, answering an APAR on this card.  There is an ATI driver that seems
to work, however.

Earlier models have IBM-supported drivers available.

	-frank

>: -Tom Wheeler

>I have an ATImach64 PCI, and it isn't recognised by the kernel whatever i
>do. (1.2.13) That means no Xwindows.

>--
>Marcell Nagy
>M.Nagy@cs.ucl.ac.uk

It's not your kernel, it's your version of Xwindows.  Pick up 3.1.2D
or 3.1.2E if its out from http://www.XFree86.org

This full release (BETA) works with my PCI ATI 2MB card.

Frank Miles (fpm@u.washington.edu) wrote:
: The CT variant of the Mach64 is not supported by IBM (Warp).
: It will probably be supported for Merlin.  This is according to an IBM
: employee, answering an APAR on this card.  There is an ATI driver that seems
: to work, however.

I just got a pentium at work with the CT version.  Any hints?  I'm having
problems with winos2 seamless sessions <sigh>.  I forget where I got the
drivers (IBM vs. ATI) -- 64os2201.zip.

David Kunz, Team OS/2

In article <4nhc77$pv8@the-fly.zip.com.au>, johnj@zip.com.au (John Jackson) says:
>
>I want to put an ATImach64 video card in an machine that is running OS/2 
>and soon Linux and Xfree86.
>
>Is anybody running a similar system and if so could you post me your views 
>on whether you are happy with the card and if you've come across any 
>problems or not.
>
>My system is a 133 Pentium w/ 32 mb ram on an Octek m/board. 
>
>The card I'm considering will probably be one of the lower end cards with 
>2mb Dram.
>
>TIA 
>John Jackson


Hi There,

I have almost exactly the same system as you, P133, 32MB RAM, OS/2, Windows 95, Windows NT, Linux, ATI Mach 64 2MB DRAM.

No problems at all. Download the latest OS/2 drivers from www.atitech.ca.

I've currently got my XFree86 at a resolution of 1280 x 1024 x 256  :-)

Performance is good. I have not run any benchmarks but I'm quite happy with my setup.


Regards,

Kwok