From: devmorfo@mtu.edu (Evmorfopoulos Dimitris) Subject: Re: ATI Ultra - X setup? Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1993 23:01:01 GMT
In article <1993Jul28.172616.20421@news.vanderbilt.edu>, umar@compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu (Sait Umar, ) writes:
> I just installed SLS 1.02 on a DELL 486DX2/50 with ATI Ultra and 1 MB
> of Video Memory. The card worked fine with Windows and dos and also works
> in the text mode (but turns the text to yellow). When I startx or xinit
> I get a whole bunch of messages and then finally saying mode is not find.
> It also writes 512 at some point although I have 1MB memory. The card is
> configured as 16bit. I would appreciate if anyone has a working Xconfig
> file to ship me a copy. Thanks,
>
>
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> umar@compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu Prof.A.S. Umar
> umarsa00@vuctrvax.bitnet Department of Physics & Astronomy
> Tel: (615) 322-2459 Vanderbilt University
> Fax: (615) 343-7263 Nashville, TN 37235
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Since you have the good old Ultra with Mach 8 on board, then the only way
to use this board properly under X windows, will be to get the X8514scale.tar.z
from either tsx-11.mit.edu or sunsite.unc.edu, and use it. The README file that
comes with the server will tell you how to install it.
Dimitris