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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:02:39 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        wilko@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Does anyone know how to define RAMDAC and clock chip of Mach64 for FreeBSD4.0/Alpha?
Message-ID:  <20000622220239.F244@freebie.wbnet>
In-Reply-To: <14673.3558.125976.170355@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 02:50:02PM -0400
References:  <49256904.000603D4.00@cmnotesx.nimc.go.jp> <14670.54275.206271.399227@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000620082737.A4615@freebie.wbnet> <14671.26090.747395.116295@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000621204621.D238@freebie.wbnet> <14673.3558.125976.170355@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 02:50:02PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Wilko Bulte writes:
>  > 
>  > > Also, some video cards will not work as console devices because the
>  > > SRM console's x86 emulator is incapable of running their BIOSes.
>  > 
>  > Right, but sofar I have not had *that* problem. Even an ancient ET4000 ISA
>  > worked for me.
> 
> I think newer cards which use 32-bit x86 instructions are the
> problematic ones, not older cards.  I remember reading that the SRM's
> x86 emulator was only capable of runing 80286 & not 80386
> instructions...  Is this true?

I really don't know. 

-- 
Wilko Bulte  	 	http://www.freebsd.org  "Do, or do not. There is no try"
wilko@freebsd.org	http://www.nlfug.nl	Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back


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