Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:46:28 +0100 From: se@FreeBSD.org (Stefan Esser) To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Cc: se@FreeBSD.org (Stefan Esser), current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Four problems that really bug me with CURRENT Message-ID: <Mutt.19961125204628.se@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <199611232200.JAA05404@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>; from David Dawes on Nov 24, 1996 09:00:38 %2B1100 References: <199611231301.OAA17983@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> <199611232200.JAA05404@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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On Nov 24, dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) wrote: > >There is PCI code in XFree86 ??? > > Yes. It was originally used for passive probing, but for some video > cards, we also need to write to the PCI config space. It would be > better if most OSs provided an interface for doing this though. FreeBSD-current (and 2.2) do. > The machines I'm referring to are not running FreeBSD (usually they > are running Linux). At least one of the PPro machines is using a > fairly old revision of the Orion chipset. I'll see if I can get > some more information about this. Ok. Thanks! > As another data point, the scanpci program distributed with XFree86 > (which uses differnet PCI code) does detect the PCI bus on these machines, > and after that has been run, the PCI code in the XFree86 servers works > again. Hmm, I don't have XFree sources on my system. I'll try to find scanpci sources and will try to understand what they are doing ... Regards, STefanhome | help
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