Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 02:27:53 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Cyrus Rahman <cr@jcmax.com> Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: S3 video cards Message-ID: <19980620022753.09201@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <9806191952.AA19235@corona.jcmax.com>; from Cyrus Rahman on Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 03:52:56PM -0400 References: <9806191952.AA19235@corona.jcmax.com>
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On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 03:52:56PM -0400, Cyrus Rahman woke me up to tell me: > > I have just changed the videocard once again in one of those machines to > > an old Diamond Viper PRO video (P9100 based) and it hasn't failed yet, in > > fact I'm writing this in a xterm on it.... > > I have a wierd feeling that these boards don't like S3 cards, all the > > others we've tried where different vinatage S3 boards. > > Well we'll see what happens, but it hasn't that stable with any of the > > other cards... > > Anybody else seen problems with S3 cards ?? > > After extensive testing, we concluded that S3 cards (and all derived > chipsets, at least as of one year ago) don't address memory over 64mbytes > correctly. So they do trash your os if you install them and use X. > > We tried all sorts of variants last year, and called the manufacturers of > various S3 cards to see if they had new bios's for their boards to fix the > problem. They advised us that it wasn't their fault, because the chips > themselves were defective and they couldn't work around it. I don't think so. This machine has 72 megs of RAM and a S3 video card, and I'm raising and lowering no less than 23 windows at the moment... *mutter* Silly Compaq that it is.... *mutter* This machine was on closeout in August '96, so it falls under that one year ago. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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