Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:39:27 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Ralph Schreyer <schreyer@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> Subject: Re: Graphics card on 433au Message-ID: <20001024203926.D1664@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010241632310.80784-100000@pauli.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>; from schreyer@th.physik.uni-bonn.de on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:43:10PM %2B0200 References: <14837.36344.340675.384466@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010241632310.80784-100000@pauli.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:43:10PM +0200, Ralph Schreyer wrote: > first thank you for your hints. The brute force override > > >>> set pci_device_override -1 > > really not works for SRM version V6.6-29. We updated to version V7.2-1 and > now the SRM console accepts the Matrox Millenium after having executed the > command above. Nevertheless, it's more clean to follow your suggestion and Right.. I'll update HARDWARE.TXT to document this. > >>> set pci_device_override <deviceid><vendorid> > > on the SRM console. We obtained <deviceid><vendorid> from the output of > > pciconf -l > > on a running machine with the same graphics card giving something like > > ... card=0x<deviceid><vendorid> ... > > We did not check if this works for V6.6-29, but for V7.2-1 the > graphics card is accepted. > As a remark, in the HARDWARE.TXT there seems to be a misprint concerning > this problem, because there <deviceid> and <vendorid> are interchanged. Hmm. I'll check this out. I always do the '-1' trick on my MX5 ;) -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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