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- From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
- Subject: Re: ATI ultra video board
- Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:19:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <2A95B235.511A@telly.on.ca>
- References: <BtA6Fy.E09@gator.rn.com>
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- In article <BtA6Fy.E09@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com
- (Larry Snyder) writes: looking at the Tech Data catalog I see a:
-
- > o Ultra 8514 with 512K
- > o Ultra 8514 with 1 Meg
- > o Ultra with 512K
- > o Ultra with 1 Meg
- > o Ultra with 1 Meg with build in VGA and mouse
-
- >I assume the top 4 require an existing VGA board where as
- >the item on the bottom contains the VGA. The point is, will
- >all of these boards run with the X386 server from Dell?
-
- Assuming Dell supports the ATI 8514 chipset, yes, all of them.
-
- The names of the cards, from the ATI literature, are exactly as follows:
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- GRAPHICS ULTRA
- Includes VGA, Super VGA (compatible with ATI VGAWonder chipset), 8514
- accelerator, and mouse. Top of the line.
-
- 8514*ULTRA
- This card requires a VGA for bootup. It's unusual, as the same card works
- in both ISA and Micro Channel. Fine if your system already has a mouse & VGA.
-
- GRAPHICS VANTAGE
- This card is exactly hardware compatible with the Graphics Ultra, except
- that it uses DRAM rather than VRAM. Performance, and price, is about
- half of the Graphics Ultra. Also includes mouse, and VGA.
-
- >Is the mouse supported with the X386 driver?
-
- From the brochure photos, the actual mouse connection into the ATI boards
- is a PS/2-type DIN connector, and the mouse definitely has three buttons
- (earlier ATI built-ins only had two-button mice).
-
- Not sure about software support in X386. ESIX R4 (4.0.3 and 4.0.4)
- explicitly supports the ATI mouse.
-
- --
- Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
- evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
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