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- From: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: how good is ati 8514
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.1488.25668@dosgate>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 22:14:11 EST
- Reply-To: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
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- 07-21-92 14:46 - Bailey Brown wrote to All re: How good is ati 8514 ultra
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- BB> I am interested in getting one of the 8514/A compaitble boards from
- BB> ATI. I already have a Tseng ET4000 board (Sigma Legend I) and would
- BB> like to know if I could use all of my SVGA modes (800x600x256 and
- BB> 1024x768x256 especially) using the pass-through connector. Is
- BB> anyone haveing any luck doing this?
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- You can pass through 800x600x256, but you'd want to do 1024x768x256
- using the 8514/A and its acceleration.
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- BB> Also, in the future, I'd like to upgrade the SVGA board to a
- BB> Diamond Speedstar24. Does anybody know if the ATI board will
- BB> pass through truecolor and hicolor modes?
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- As far as I know, it won't, because the passthru is VESA spec and
- VESA didn't include the hicolor/truecolor modes. This is purely
- hearsay though -- I haven't actually _tried_ it (since I don't have
- the hardware ;(.
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- The apparently solution is to hook up the ET4K's output AND the 8514's
- output to a monitor, and switch between them. Of course, you need
- either two monitors or one that can switch ;).
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- kenneth.tam@canrem.com
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