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The graphics controller IC is an ATI RAGE Mobility 128. Along with 8 MB of on-chip SDRAM, the graphics IC contains 2D and 3D acceleration engines, front-end and back-end scalers, a CRT controller, and an AGP 2X bus interface with bus master capability.
The features of the RAGE Mobility 128 include
The interface between the graphics IC and the rest of the system is an AGP 2X (accelerated graphics port, double speed) bus on the Uni-N IC. To give the graphics IC fast access to system memory, the AGP bus has separate address and data lines and supports deeply pipelined read and write operations. The AGP bus has 32 data lines and a clock speed of 66 MHz.
The graphics IC uses a graphics address remapping table (GART) to translate AGP logical addresses into physical addresses. The graphics driver software can allocate memory in both the on-chip SDRAM and the main memory.
The graphics IC supports the built-in flat-panel display and an external monitor. The external monitor can either mirror the built-in display or show additional desktop space (dual-display mode). For information about the displays and supported resolutions, see Flat Panel Display and External Monitors.