> I'm seriously looking into putting together a system based on the NoName
> board. I have some questions after looking over the FAQ and browsing
> The ATI Graphics Pro Turbo video board looks attractive. It uses
> the ATI Mach64 chip set, for which full programming documentation
> (including the accelleration stuff) is available. The FAQ only
> mentions Mach64, but as far as I can tell from their web page
> (http://www.atitech.ca/), ATI doesn't sell a board of that name.
It is available in a lot of places.
Over here in Germany it goes for about 380,- DM which you have to
multiply with about 1.4 in order to get $US.
> Has anyone tried this specific board or either of the others that
> use the Mach64 chips?
They are graet for GUI stuff, but fail on the console.
svgamodi are very slow on the console and oftern are incompatible
implemented. XFree has better support for them then ATI for OS/2 :-)
>
> or remappable. I assume that when X is running I can just use xmodmap
> like I do now on my SGI at work.
With linux console you may remap the keyboard in any fashion. You may
have to relabel your keys on the board :-)
-- martin