Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 14:05:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, davidg@Root.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC Message-ID: <199607102105.OAA27228@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199607101640.KAA23663@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Jul 10, 96 10:40:16 am
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> > > We have to remove sio3 because we can't disable it by default and it > > > conflicts with the most common SVGA cards. > > > > That's a plausible argument but I remind you that we've been through several > > releases with sio3 enabled. > > Yes, but 'newer' SVGA cards *now* blow up when sio3 is enabled. In the > past this wasn't a big deal, but even in 2.1R we had quite a few folks > who got wiped out by sio3 (read Usenet), and this is only going to get > worse with the faster S3/ATI/Mach cards becoming more commonplace. I posted the assembly code used to detect these cards once already. If you don't probe the location because of an existing conflict with a registration from the console driver, then you don't have a problem. Look at the ATI home page. The assembly code is posted there (as well as being in the -current list archives, thanks to me). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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