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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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