From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 3 17:27:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA29325 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 17:27:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA29320 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 17:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01522; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 17:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708040026.RAA01522@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Terry Lambert cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), jbarrm@panix.com, sherwink@ix.netcom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-3.3, FBSD-2.2.2 & ViRGE/VX In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Aug 1997 15:03:09 PDT." <199708032203.PAA02444@phaeton.artisoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 17:26:55 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yes, it is true and this is and old problem also I think it surfaces because some PC chisets incorrectly map the io address by truncating the S3 ioaddress. The problem has been there since day one of S3 chipsets. Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Terry Lambert : > > Some S3 boards uses the same i/o ports as sio3. You shouldn't use both > > sio3 and X these boards. Some S3 boards crash at boot time when sio3 > > is probed. You shouldn't configure sio3 if you have one of these boards > > (even if you don't use X). > > S3 boards? > > Is this true? > > I know there was a problem with Mach32 and Mach64 boards incorrectly > listening to I/O's on some ports before being put into a mode where > listening was mandatory (it's a bug in the chipset). > > I didn't think S3 had the same problem... I run nothing but S3 cards, > and I haven't seen the problem on any of my machines... > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers.