Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:13:14 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Problem with sio probe and Mach64 PCI video card Message-ID: <199511300813.JAA18885@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199511300240.NAA21779@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Nov 30, 95 01:40:20 pm
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As David Dawes wrote: > > >As David Dawes wrote: > >S3 can coexist with traditional COM4, since it's possible to remap > >their IO registers (they only default to the 8514-compatible mode). > >XFree86 didn't implement this however [...] > > We did make an attempt at implementing it, but found that there were > problems using it with some of the S3 chips :-( (grep for COM4 in the > XFree86 CHANGELOG). Hmm, perhaps it would be worth another try, assuming that all the newer chips are no longer broken with this respect? (I seem to remember that the broken chips were some 86C805's.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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