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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:57:57 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC
Message-ID:  <199604110757.JAA04191@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604101342.XAA24512@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 10, 96 11:42:56 pm

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As Bruce Evans wrote:

> BTW, sio3 should be disabled by default in GENERIC so that it doesn't
> foul S3 boards.
  ...  faulty 8514/A-descendant boards.

...like those from ATI.  My S3 chips have never been confused by it,
since they enable the 0x*2e8 registers only when running in enhanced
mode, i.e. if the Xserver has been started.  ATI messed this up in
their recent chips.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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