Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:11:45 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Karl Dunn <k.l.dunn@ieee.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multia: syscons does not find PCI vga card Message-ID: <20021113221144.GU6446@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.44.0211131303490.445128-100000@fly.hiwaay.net> References: <Pine.OSF.4.44.0211131303490.445128-100000@fly.hiwaay.net>
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On 2002-Nov-13 13:08:08 -0600, "Karl L. Dunn" <kdunn@hiwaay.net> wrote: >I have a Multia/UDB (alpha) to which I added a Diamond VGA card in the >internal PCI slot. This has a S3 Trio64V+ chip. The intent is to be able >to run X over FreeBSD 4.6.2. I haven't actually tried it yet, but all the documentation states that the TGA is supported by XFree86 - both 3.3.6 and 4.2.0 (and maybe older 4.x versions). There is FreeBSD support for the TGA in -current and the driver code also supports -stable. I thought it had been MFC'd but it looks like it hasn't. If you rummage back through the archives of this list, you should find instructions for getting a TGA running in -stable. (The original port was to -stable and I was only involved in porting it to -current). >The problem is that syscons can't find the S3 VGA (see the verbose dmesg >output below). Maybe this is related to what the SRM leaves behind, but I >doubt it. The kernel here is the GENERIC that came on the 4.6.2 CD I got >from the BSD mall. The S3 card is being found as a PCI device. The problem is that syscons looks for an ISA VGA card. There's a variety of glue logic that makes the PCI card masquerate as an ISA device for booting purposes - and I believe that this needs SRM assistance as well. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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