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To: Andrew Herdman <apollo@io.org>
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Subject: Re: VLB Supported? 
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Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 10:49:43 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com>
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>Hello;
>
>This may sound like a silly question, but I haven't seen it mentioned 
>anywhere so I'm going to ask it.
>
>I have a DX/2 VLB motherboard, with no PCI slots.  Right now I am running 
>with a slow trident video card, so X is a bit painful.  I'd like to get a 
>new card, either a Mach32 Vram or Mach64.  If I buy a card for the VLB 
>is it supported?  I have re-built the kernel, pulled out all the PCI 
>defines, but there don't seem to be any VLB defines.  Is VLB 
>automatically supported?  
>
>Thanks
>Andrew

VLB is supported by default.  There is no need to remove any of the
PCI code to make it work either.  If you don't want the PCI code in
your kernel, don't include the pci0 device in your kernel config file.
--
Justin T. Gibbs
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