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in my experience gateway machines are always weird and I'd avoid them. At 04:20 PM 5/1/96 -0400, you wrote: >I'm in the process of ordering a Gateway 2000 Pentium 133 with Windows NT. I >also want to put Linux on it, so I'm checking out all the hardware to make >sure things will work. > >One video card they offer is an ATI CT Mach 64 w/ 2MB DRAM. The problem is >that ATI doesn't market such a card with that name to the public. I called >Gateway and asked if this was an ATI card with another name, and nobody knew >the answer. > >ATI _does_ have a Mach 64 series of cards, just none with this name. > >I also emailed to ATI and have gotten no response yet. > >I have fears about getting drivers for this supposedly mongrel card. Are >these fears unfounded? For example, since this card uses the same 64-bit >graphics accelerator chip as the other Mach 64 cards, do they use the same >driver? It looks like it from the .zip file I downloaded. > >Also, another video card choice for an additional $50 is a Matrox that is a >standard card (and a fast one) that Matrox sells to the public. Matrox cards >aren't supported for Linux, so I would need to go third party, like >Accel-x(?) and pay for an X-server - I think it's $50. Anybody gone this route? > >Thanks, > >Dan Murphy > >Dan Murphy murph at vmark.com >Vmark Software 74260.3322 at compuserve.com >Westboro, MA > > > > > Rodney Thayer :: rodney at sabletech.com Sable Technology Corp :: +1 617 332 7292 246 Walnut St :: Fax: +1 617 332 7970 Newton MA 02160 USA :: http://www.shore.net/~sable "Developers of communications software"
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