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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 21:52:25 +0400
From: George Bronnikov <goga@rgs.mccme.ru>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] best supported vga card?
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> > I have trouble configuring my RagePro.  The only working (sorta)
> > mode is 640x480x8, and there I have the left half of the screen
> > repeated twice.
> Assuming you have a good multisync monitor and told plan9.ini
> about it, that's the sort of thing that happens for an unsupported
> flavor of ATI chip.  (I got from 3 to 5 partial panels when using
> a RAGE-128.)  What is the specific product name of the video board,
> and the part name stamped on the controller chip?  It might not be
> what you think it is..

On the video board: 

	PN 109-40200-01
	AMC ver 2.0

On the chip:

	3D RAGE PRO AGP 2X
	215R3BUA22
	B9Y73
	9747SS
	TAIWAN

(Sorry, I have no idea which part of all this may be significant).

XFree86 runs on it using the Mach64 driver.

	George