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Date:      Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:47:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        wc.bulte@chello.nl
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Does anyone know how to define RAMDAC and clock chip of Mach64 for FreeBSD4.0/Alpha?
Message-ID:  <14671.26090.747395.116295@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000620082737.A4615@freebie.wbnet>
References:  <49256904.000603D4.00@cmnotesx.nimc.go.jp> <14670.54275.206271.399227@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000620082737.A4615@freebie.wbnet>

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Wilko Bulte writes:
 > 
 > XF86 works just like as on the Intel. Notable exception is a core dumping
 > SuperProbe.

Not to mention that buggy Xservers will panic machines when they
access invalid i/o space addresses on non-ev6 platforms.

Also, some video cards will not work as console devices because the
SRM console's x86 emulator is incapable of running their BIOSes.

I've found that Permedia & Matrox cards work well..

Drew

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