Hello Marc, I have read this and I guess I miss understood this as I saw Mach 8 and mach32 in the main paragraph I didn't read the rest in detail. From what you have quoted, the Mach 64 card I have "will not" work with XFree86 4.1.
I guess I will install 3.3 and work with that until I get a new computer. I do ask why the color depth was dropped from 3.x to 4.x? Thank you for your answer even though it isn't what I wanted to hear. Marc Aurele La France wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, R Laing wrote: > > > As the documentation for states that the ATI MACH 64 chip is supported > > in more than 8 bit color, I cannot figure out how to force the change to > > allow greater than 8 bit color support. > > Actually, the documentation I maintain states: > > "The driver currently supports the SuperVGA capabilities of all ATI > adapter except some early Mach8 and Mach32 adapters that do not provide > the required functionality. This support works for monochrome, 16-colour > and 256-colour video modes, if one of the following ATI graphics > controller chips is present: > > VGAWonder series: 18800, 18800-1, 28800-2, 28800-4, 28800-5, 28800-6 > Mach32 series: 68800-3, 68800-6, 68800AX, 68800LX > Mach64 series: 88800GX-C, 88800GX-D, 88800GX-E, 88800GX-F, > 88800CX, 264CT, 264ET, 264VT, 264GT (3D Rage), > 264VT-B, 264VT3, 264VT4, 264GT-B (3D Rage II), 3D > Rage IIc, 3D Rage Pro, 3D Rage LT, 3D Rage LT Pro, > 3D Rage XL, 3D Rage XC, 3D Rage Mobility > (including the -M and -P variants) > > The driver also supports 32K, 64K and 16M-colour modes on the 264xT and 3D > Rage series of adapters using the accelerator CRTC (but not the VGA > CRTC)." > > The GX is not a 264xT, nor a 3D Rage, ergo... > > 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 _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
