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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
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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, STefan