Fwd: RE: [AG-TECH] ATi Radeon 9700 Pro video card?

[Robert Olson]

>From: "Art Ziarko" <aziarko at insors.com>
>To: "Robert Olson" <olson at mcs.anl.gov>
>Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] ATi Radeon 9700 Pro video card?
>Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:48:03 -0500
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>Have you tried changing the system Bios to auto select the graphic card it
>boots on first or if it allows you to chose between PCI and AGP manually.
>  Does the Matrox triple card give to 3 totaly seperte display like 1,2,3 if
>you do a Identify
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
>Behalf Of Robert Olson
>Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 8:57 PM
>To: Matthew Wolf; bernholdtde at ornl.gov
>Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] ATi Radeon 9700 Pro video card?
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>That's unfortunate. We've run into a similar thing with the Matrox
>Parhelia; apparently the system hangs when you try to boot it up with
>another Matrox PCI card in it (I think we tried a G450).
>
>--bob
>
>At 06:31 PM 8/20/2002 -0400, Matthew Wolf wrote:
> >I actually was all ready to go out & buy one of these today.  However,
> >to quote from Q10 on their 9700 FAQ...
> >
> >"ATI does not support the use of an additional PCI graphic card or
> >integrated video in a system with the RADEON™ 9700 PRO to run three or
> >more displays. "
> >
> >So unless someone has additional info and/or an in with someone on ATI's
> >device driver team, this probably doesn't look like a good fit.  Shame
> >... I really wanted to have a good excuse to get one.  :)