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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:31:11 -0200

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Subject: Re: [9fans] Video card problem..
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>I have made progress. I was intsalling from 1st edition CD, with 2nd
>edition it does install correctly from CD. Now I want to get a better
>GUI. The card in the PC is:

>ATI 3D Charger IIC/4Mb RAM

>card documentation says that it can do dotclock to 80MHz
>ramdac is "3D Rage II" at 170Mhz

>aux/vga finds a string at

>0xC0085="ATI MACH64 BIOS P/N 113-40606-112"

>link=vga
>ctrl=mach64

>if I use the above three lines in /lib/vgadb the screen goes blank and
>stays blank.

>Any pointers?

>- ishwar