From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 18 05:54:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA16220 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 05:54:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA16214 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 05:54:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id FAA02940 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 05:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.87]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.7.5/jtpda-5.2) with SMTP id OAA14077 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:03:45 +0200 (METDST) Received: from iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (iaka) by mekong.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jn930126+af960507(mailhost)) at Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:03:11 +0100 Received: by iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr (5.67b/jf930126) at Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:03:09 +0100 Message-Id: <199607181303.AA02553@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr> Subject: Re: SOYO SY-30F2 blues To: freebsd-hardware@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:03:08 +0100 (GMT+0100) From: "Alain FAUCONNET" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hoi Hardware, > > > > I own a SOYO SY-30F2 mainboard (4xpci, 2xvesa, all 486's) with a > > NCR 53C810 on the PCI bus. Until a week ago that was the only device > > on the PCI bus. > > > > A week ago I added a 'Diamond Stealth 64 video 2001' to my system. > > Pretty cool video card, but not for me. X crashes my system (as in > > immediate reboot). Needless to say Descent^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMS-DOS runs > > fine :( I have no MS Windows to try it with. > > [......] > > If anything I would syspect the Diamond Stealth 64 video 2001, I have > heard nothing but nightmares from my freinds down the street who build > regular PC for DOS/Windows/WIN95 when they try to use these things on > just about anyones motherboard. > > > > > boot -v reveals that both the SCSI and the VGA card use int# a. and > > occupy the same memory address. This is regardless of the settings I > > do in the bios (Award modular bios). > > It sounds like maybe the bios on the VGA card or the motherboard bios > are not doing the right thing with respect to memory space assignment. > I'm not sure about the 2xxx series, but the 3xxx Diamond Stealth 64 are nice and fast controllers for FBSD/XFree86... once you figured out how to configure them. Make sure you are using the latest XFree86 3.1.2 beta release (I think it's 3.1.2e). Also try playing with options in the /etc/XF86Config file. I have had to explicitely specify the VRAM base address in mine as follows (remember my card is a 3400): Section "Device" Identifier "Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM" VendorName "Diamond" BoardName "Stealth 64 Video VRAM" MemBase 0x8000000 #Option "slow_vram" Option "sw_cursor" Option "Diamond" # Use Option "nolinear" if the server doesn't start up correctly # (this avoids the linear framebuffer probe). If that fails try # option "nomemaccess". # # Refer to /usr/X11R6/lib/doc/README.S3, and the XF86_S3 man page. EndSection Note that the address will probably vary for your configuration. Actually I picked up mine from what the demo Xaccel commercial server printed at startup. You might want to try it, I think it's available on www.xinside.com. Option "slow_vram" (commented out above) is said to avoid some cases of image corruption and/or crashes too. Good luck, _Alain_ -- Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" But... I *am* the system administrator :-]